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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HyperSQL vs. Pinecone

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hsqldb.orgwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.heavy.aihsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperEsgynThomas MuellerHEAVY.AI, Inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20152005201620012019
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.10, January 20222.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaC++ and CUDAJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesString, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoJava, SQL
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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