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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Hyprcubd vs. Kdb vs. Kinetica vs. NuoDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareServerless Time Series DBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hyprcubd.com (offline)kx.comwww.kinetica.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aicode.kx.comdocs.kinetica.comdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hyprcubd, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcKineticaDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320122013
Current release5.10, January 20223.6, May 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAGoqC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
gRPC (https)HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsuser defined functionsJava, SQL
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioningShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022HyprcubdKdbKineticaNuoDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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