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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sequoiadb vs. TempoIQ

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareHigh performance Time Series DBMSA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Wide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
kx.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.sequoiadb.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aicode.kx.comwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoftSequoiadb Ltd.TempoIQ
Initial release20162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201220132012
Current release5.10, January 20223.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAqC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'noyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (q)noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONHTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoJavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsnonoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic lockingDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturessimple password-based access controlsimple authentication-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KdbMicrosoft Azure Table StorageSequoiadbTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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