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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Sadas Engine

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hypertable Inc.KineticaSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20052016200920122006
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.10, January 20220.9.8.11, March 20167.1, August 20218.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ and CUDAC++C, C++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoRound robinShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
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 RAMyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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