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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.kinetica.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.heavy.aidocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.kinetica.comdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHEAVY.AI, Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)KineticaOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20142016199120121994
Current release5.10, January 20225.77.1, August 202118.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ and CUDAC, C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyesno
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.nonoyesnoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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