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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak TS vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak TS vs. Trafodion

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 hardwareDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latesttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162010201520152014
Current release5.10, January 20223.3 July 20233.0.0, September 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesErlangC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoErlangJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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