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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenSearch vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenSearch vs. TerminusDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score2.98
Rank#91  Overall
#17  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#49  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
boilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aiboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsopensearch.org/­docs/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.InterSystemsAmazon Web ServicesDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162002201820212018
Current release5.10, January 20224.02023.3, June 20232.5.0, January 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnoneShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesRole-based access control
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022InfinityDBInterSystems IRISOpenSearchTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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