DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml

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Name

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
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Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

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

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

Amazon Web Services

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

2021

2015

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

2.5.0, January 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Market metrics

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