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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. XTDB

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Name

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

jsqldb.org (offline)

google.github.io/lovefield

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

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Konrad von Backstrom

Google

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2010

2018

2014

2019

Current release

5.10, January 2022

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Erlang

JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

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

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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