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DBMS > EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. TypeDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.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 HadoopTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgreenplum.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
typedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.greenplum.orgdocs.heavy.aitypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsPivotal Software Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Hypertable Inc.Vaticle
Initial release20122005201620092016
Current release7.0.0, September 20235.10, January 20220.9.8.11, March 20162.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++ and CUDAC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesnoyes
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 infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Thrift
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write 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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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EJDBGreenplumHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022HypertableTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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