DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. InfluxDB vs. JSqlDb vs. MongoDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. InfluxDB vs. JSqlDb vs. MongoDB vs. SQream DB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	423.96
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.73
Rank	#228	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.mongodb.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.sqream.com

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

MongoDB, Inc

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2013

2018

2009

2017

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.7.5, January 2024

0.8, December 2018

6.0.7, June 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

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