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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.firebolt.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

SiteWhere

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2020

2016

2014

2010

2012

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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