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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Informix vs. OpenMLDB

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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

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	16.32
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/informix

openmldb.ai

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

4 Paradigm Inc.

Initial release

2016

1984

2020

Current release

5.10, January 2022

14.10.FC5, November 2020

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

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

C, C++ and Java

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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