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DBMS > EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. NSDb vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. NSDb vs. Pinecone

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
nsdb.iowww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.heavy.ainsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperExasolHEAVY.AI, Inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2000201620172019
Current release5.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringString, Number, Boolean
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
Scala
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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