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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.15
Rank	#302	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	1.33
Rank	#150	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	3.09
Rank	#100	Overall
	#18	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#226	Overall
	#34	Document stores

Website

geospock.com

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

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.geospock.com/Content/Home.htm

docs.heavy.ai

docs.intersystems.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

GeoSpock

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

InterSystems

Initial release

2016

1997

2014

Current release

2.0, September 2019

5.10, January 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

Optimizes memory and compute layers to deliver unprecedented performance. Natively...
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Competitive advantages

Only HEAVY.AI allows users to visually and interactively discover high-value patterns,...
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Typical application scenarios

Advanced analytics, geospatial and time-series analytics, accelerated data science,...
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Licensing and pricing models

HEAVY.AI Free (Free Forever), Foundations ($2k/month), and Enterprise Licensure (Inquire...
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