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DBMS > BigObject vs. GBase vs. Geode vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GBase vs. Geode vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.gbase.cngeode.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.HEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release2015200420022016
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.1, February 20175.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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