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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. InfluxDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. YDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewpostgis.netgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesYandex
Initial release20162013200520092019
Current release5.10, January 20222.7.6, April 20243.4.2, February 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAGoCErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsErlangno
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factorActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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