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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. Kinetica

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.heavy.aidocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAltibaseHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hypertable Inc.EmbarcaderoKinetica
Initial release19992016200919842012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.10, January 20220.9.8.11, March 2016InterBase 2020, December 20197.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAC++CC, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser 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 nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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