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DBMS > Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. JaguarDB vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. JaguarDB vs. Kinetica

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwarePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.jaguardb.comwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.heavy.aiwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperChris DavisHEAVY.AI, Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.Kinetica
Initial release2006201620152012
Current release5.10, January 20223.3 July 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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