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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. mSQL vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. mSQL vs. Newts

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  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 simplicityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kinetica.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Circonus LLC.KineticaHughes TechnologiesOpenNMS Group
Initial release20162017201219942014
Current release5.10, January 2022V0.10.20, January 20187.1, August 20214.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC and C++C, C++CJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java 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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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 infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono

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