DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LeanXcale vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LeanXcale vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.leanxcale.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Axibase Corporation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

LeanXcale

Google

Initial release

2012

2013

2016

2015

2014

Current release

15585

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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