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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kdb vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kdb vs. Lovefield

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareHigh performance Time Series DBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score7.70
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
kx.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aicode.kx.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperGeoSpockHEAVY.AI, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcGoogle
Initial release20162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032014
Current release2.0, September 20195.10, January 20223.6, May 20182.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++ and CUDAqJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsno
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GeoSpockHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KdbLovefield
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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