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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Quasardb vs. TDengine

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.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 CPUsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comquasar.aigithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperDataStaxHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaquasardbTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20112016201220092019
Current release6.8, April 20205.10, January 20227.1, August 20213.14.1, January 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAC, C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes
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Datastax EnterpriseHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KineticaQuasardbTDengine
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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