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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PouchDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PouchDB vs. RDF4J

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitegalaxybase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storepouchdb.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storepouchdb.com/­guidesrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司HEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMApache Software FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20172016201720122004
Current releaseNov 20, November 20215.10, January 20222.07.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC++ and CUDAC and C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemayesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenono
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnoyesView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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