DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.heavy.ai

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

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

Machbase

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

2013

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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