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DBMS > EJDB vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgraphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperSoftmotionsChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release2012200620082016
Current release2.3.4, January 20215.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCPythonJavaC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idNumeric data onlyoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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