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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. JSqlDb vs. KeyDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.15
Rank	#167	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#221	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Website

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

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.keydb.dev

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2018

2019

Current release

5.10, January 2022

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source 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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

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