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DBMS > H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RisingWave vs. TimescaleDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RisingWave vs. TimescaleDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.risingwave.com/­databasewww.timescale.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.heavy.aidocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.timescale.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCNRSHEAVY.AI, Inc.RisingWave LabsTimescaleVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20132016202220172011
Current release5.10, January 20221.2, September 20232.15.0, May 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDARustCC#
Server operating systemsLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2noUDFs in Python or Javauser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
TriggersyesnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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