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DBMS > BigObject vs. Dolt vs. EDB Postgres vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Linter

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Dolt vs. EDB Postgres vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Linter

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareRDBMS for high security requirements
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
linter.ru
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.dolthub.comwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.DoltHub IncEnterpriseDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.relex.ru
Initial release20152018200520161990
Current release14, December 20215.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoCC++ and CUDAC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
HTTP REST
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infocurrently in alpha releaseuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Multi-source replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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