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DBMS > Altibase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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 hardwareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefieldtrafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseHEAVY.AI, Inc.GoogleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPJuxt Ltd.
Initial release19992016201420142019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.10, January 20222.1.12, February 20172.3.0, February 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAJavaScriptC++, JavaClojure
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoJava Stored Proceduresno
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationnoneyes, via HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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