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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. Kinetica

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasejsqldb.org (offline)www.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.kinetica.com
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Konrad von BackstromKinetica
Initial release20162010199120182012
Current release5.10, January 20225.70.8, December 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAErlangC, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnooptionalnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesfunctions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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