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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
Document store
Wide column store
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSterminusdb.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aispotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.SpotifyDataChemist Ltd.Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release20162014201420182017
Current release5.10, January 202211.0.0, January 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaJavaScriptProlog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingnoneGraph PartitioningHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneJournaling StreamsBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoin-memory journalingyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlyes
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022HeroicLokiJSTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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