Heroic vs MariaDB: What are the differences?
Developers describe Heroic as "A scalable time series database based on Cassandra and Elasticsearch, by Spotify". Heroic is Spotify's in-house time series database. It was built to address the challenges Spotify was facing with near real-time data collection and presentation at scale. On the other hand, MariaDB is detailed as "An enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL". Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry. MariaDB is designed as a drop-in replacement of MySQL(R) with more features, new storage engines, fewer bugs, and better performance.
Heroic and MariaDB can be primarily classified as "Databases" tools.
Some of the features offered by Heroic are:
- heroic-core contains the com.spotify.heroic.HeroicCore class which is the central building block for setting up a Heroic instance.
- heroic-elasticsearch-utils is a collection of utilities for interacting with Elasticsearch. This is separate since we have more than one backend that needs to talk with elasticsearch.
- heroic-parser provides an Antlr4 implementation of com.spotify.heroic.grammar.QueryParser, which is used to parse the Heroic DSL.
On the other hand, MariaDB provides the following key features:
- Replication
- Insert Delayed
- Events
Heroic and MariaDB are both open source tools. MariaDB with 2.82K GitHub stars and 864 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Heroic with 710 GitHub stars and 89 GitHub forks.
