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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. mSQL vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. mSQL vs. Quasardb

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kinetica.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aikairosdb.github.iodocs.kinetica.comdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaHughes Technologiesquasardb
Initial release20162013201219942009
Current release5.10, January 20221.2.2, November 20187.1, August 20214.4, October 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaC, C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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