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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. XTDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.34
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#299	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#327	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

jsqldb.org (offline)

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Google

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2009

2018

2014

2019

Current release

5.10, January 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

0.8, December 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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