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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB vs. NSDb vs. WakandaDB

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Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

boilerbay.com

nsdb.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

nsdb.io/Architecture

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2002

2017

2012

Current release

5.10, January 2022

4.0

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Java

Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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