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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kingbase vs. Oracle NoSQL

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kingbase.com.cnwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.heavy.aidocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseHEAVY.AI, Inc.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Oracle
Initial release1999201619992011
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.10, January 2022V8.0, August 202123.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAC and JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeyesyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptional
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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