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DBMS > Altibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSIn-memory caching systemSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comcachelot.iogeospock.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.heavy.aidocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAltibaseGeoSpockHEAVY.AI, Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release1999201520161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.0, September 20195.10, January 202211.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java, JavascriptC++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesnotemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Memcached protocolJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnononoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replicationIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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