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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kinetica vs. NuoDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kinetica vs. NuoDB vs. Vitess

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareCloud-based data warehousing serviceFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.kinetica.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasevitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comdoc.nuodb.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMKineticaDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20162014201220132013
Current release5.10, January 20227.1, August 202115.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC, C++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
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 infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functionsJava, SQLyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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