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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kingbase vs. SpatiaLite

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA multi-model DBMS and application serverAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.intersystems.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperEsgynHEAVY.AI, Inc.InterSystemsBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20152016199719992008
Current release5.10, January 20222018.1.4, May 2020V8.0, August 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC++ and CUDAC and JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyesnone
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 integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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