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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwarePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.53
Rank#258  Overall
#40  Document stores
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.30
Rank#127  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#372  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#151  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#229  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.jaguardb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.heavy.aiwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHEAVY.AI, Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Kinetica
Initial release20142016201519912012
Current release5.10, January 20223.3 July 20235.77.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ and CUDAC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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