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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Hive vs. Kingbase vs. RDF4J

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwaredata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hive.apache.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aicwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homerdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2016201219992004
Current release5.10, January 20223.1.3, April 2022V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaC and JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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