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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Bangdb vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Bangdb vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgbangdb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.bangdb.comdocs.heavy.aidocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSachin Sinha, BangDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.InterSystems
Initial release20152012201619972014
Current release1.0.0, September 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20215.10, January 20222018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++ and CUDAJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesno
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 indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL like support with command line toolyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoRound robinnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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