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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. OpenQM

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Relational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score3.77
Rank#87  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitearangodb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Hypertable Inc.KineticaRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release20122016200920121993
Current release3.11.5, November 20235.10, January 20220.9.8.11, March 20167.1, August 20213.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAC++C, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesnoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnonouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnononoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0Sharding infoRound robinShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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ArangoDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022HypertableKineticaOpenQM infoalso called QM
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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