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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfluxDB vs. Pinecone vs. searchxml

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitewww.gbase.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.pinecone.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Pinecone Systems, Incinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20042016201320192015
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.10, January 20222.7.6, April 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++ and CUDAGoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and StringsString, Number, Booleanyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
PythonC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoRound robinSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonomultiple readers, single writer
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.yesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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GBaseHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022InfluxDBPineconesearchxml
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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