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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. MySQL vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB 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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used open source RDBMS

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.kinetica.com

www.mysql.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.kinetica.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Kinetica

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2010

2012

1995

2016

Current release

5.10, January 2022

7.1, August 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Erlang

C, C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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