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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ingres vs. MaxDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWell established RDBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.actian.com/­ingresmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Actian CorporationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release201620101974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s1984
Current release5.10, January 202211.2, May 20227.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAErlangCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres ReplicatorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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