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DBMS > BigObject vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. Qdrant

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  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 hardwareIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.heavy.aitechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdoc.nuodb.comqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Qdrant
Initial release20152016201420132021
Current release5.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesNumbers, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoView functions in JavaScriptJava, SQL
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersKey-based authentication

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