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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

2010

Current release

5.10, January 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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