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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. mSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. mSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. VelocityDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 CPUsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherevelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaHughes TechnologiesSiteWhereVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20162012199420102011
Current release5.10, January 20227.1, August 20214.4, October 20217.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC, C++CJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST.Net
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptBased on Windows Authentication

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