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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. Pinecone

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. 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 hardwareA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.jaguardb.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Circonus LLC.DataJaguar, Inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2016201720152019
Current release5.10, January 2022V0.10.20, January 20183.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesString, Number, Boolean
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luano
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardnorights management via user accounts

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