DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Informix vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Informix vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SpatiaLite

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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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

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

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

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.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oracle

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

1984

1994

2007

2008

Current release

5.10, January 2022

14.10.FC5, November 2020

18.1.40, May 2020

14.1, August 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C, C++ and Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
JSON API

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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