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System Properties Comparison Databend vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.28
Rank	#287	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

docs.heavy.ai

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Databend Labs

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2021

2016

2012

2000

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

5.10, January 2022

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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