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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 ElasticSearchEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOracles in-memory data grid solutionDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­spotify/­heroicgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aispotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.SpotifyGoogleOraclequasardb
Initial release20162014201420072009
Current release5.10, January 20222.1.12, February 201714.1, August 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 Elasticsearchyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infooptionallyyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing MemoryDByesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022HeroicLovefieldOracle CoherenceQuasardb
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