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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Cachelot.io vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Cachelot.io vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. SwayDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraIn-memory caching systemA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareIn-memory JavaScript DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iocachelot.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.heavy.aitechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperRackspaceHEAVY.AI, Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20132015201620142018
Current release5.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++ and CUDAJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnono
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 indexesnononoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTMemcached protocolJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoRound robinnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes 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.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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