DBMS > Axibase vs. Badger vs. Coveo vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Badger vs. Coveo vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

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

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.coveo.com

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

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.coveo.com

docs.heavy.ai

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Axibase Corporation

DGraph Labs

Coveo

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2013

2017

2012

2016

1980

Current release

15585

5.10, January 2022

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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