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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SurrealDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SurrealDB vs. XTDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.56
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
surrealdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.heavy.aisurrealdb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftHEAVY.AI, Inc.SurrealDB LtdJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2010201620222019
Current release5.10, January 2022v1.5.0, May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation language.NET and CC++ and CUDARustClojure
Server operating systems.NETLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022SurrealDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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