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DBMS > BigObject vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. Qdrant

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 hardwareA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.heavy.aidocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.InterSystemsQdrant
Initial release20152016199720142021
Current release5.10, January 20222018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptRust
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
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnoneCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoKey-based authentication

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