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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FeatureBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB vs. Kinetica

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.featurebase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
boilerbay.comwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.featurebase.comdocs.heavy.aiboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperRackspaceMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsHEAVY.AI, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.Kinetica
Initial release20132017201620022012
Current release2022, May 20225.10, January 20224.07.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++ and CUDAJavaC, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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 indexesnononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL queriesyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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