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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. SWC-DB vs. TDengine

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.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 CPUsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
github.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperEnterpriseDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaAlex KashirinTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20052016201220202019
Current release14, December 20215.10, January 20227.1, August 20210.5, April 20213.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++ and CUDAC, C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser 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 nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
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 controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes
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EDB PostgresHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KineticaSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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