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DBMS > BigObject vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres vs. SiriDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres vs. SiriDB vs. XTDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareWell established RDBMSOpen Source Time Series DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingressiridb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.heavy.aidocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.siridb.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Actian CorporationCesbitJuxt Ltd.
Initial release201520161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20172019
Current release5.10, January 202211.2, May 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDACCClojure
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationIngres Replicatoryesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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BigObjectHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022IngresSiriDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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