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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Kuzu vs. Splice Machine vs. TypeDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilityOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#402  Overall
#41  Graph DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
kuzudb.comsplicemachine.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.kuzudb.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workstypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Splice MachineVaticle
Initial release2016202220142016
Current release5.10, January 20220.4.2, May 20243.1, March 20212.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMIT licenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
CLI Client
Cypher Query Language
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoJavano
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KuzuSplice MachineTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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