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DBMS > Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
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Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegreenplum.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.heavy.aihugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.BaiduInterSystems
Initial release20052016201819972014
Current release7.0.0, September 20235.10, January 20220.92018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yes infosince Version 4.2nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnovia hugegraph-sparknoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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