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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant vs. QuestDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant vs. QuestDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Tibero

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  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 CouchDBA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.46
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquestdb.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimeus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantquestdb.io/­docstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014QuestDB Technology IncMireoTmaxSoft
Initial release20162010201420202003
Current release5.10, January 20227, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAErlangJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL with time-series extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
C++
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Fixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencyReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID for single-table writesnoACID
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.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped filesnono infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022IBM CloudantQuestDBSpaceTimeTibero
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