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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpatial extension of SQLiteKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.InterSystemsAlessandro FurieriSTS Soft SC
Initial release20161997201420082011
Current release5.10, January 20222018.1.4, May 20205.0.0, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessWindows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonono

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