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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Postgres-XL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Postgres-XL vs. SWC-DB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaAlex Kashirin
Initial release201620122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2020
Current release5.10, January 20227.1, August 202110 R1, October 20180.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC, C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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