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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml vs. SwayDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

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

postgis.net

www.searchxml.net/category/products

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

postgis.net/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2009

2005

2015

2018

Current release

5.10, January 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.4.2, February 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

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

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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