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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. Pinecone

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial extension of H2A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.heavy.aikairosdb.github.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperCNRSHEAVY.AI, Inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20162013201620132019
Current release5.10, January 20221.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++ and CUDAJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesString, Number, 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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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