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DBMS > BoltDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OceanBase

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OceanBase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchen.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaMicrosoftOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release20132016201220152010
Current release5.10, January 20227.1, August 2021V14.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC++ and CUDAC, C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languagesGoAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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