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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQL.JS

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareIn-memory JavaScript DBMSWidely used in-process key-value storeSpatial extension of SQLitePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aitechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleAlessandro FurieriAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20162014199420082012
Current release5.10, January 202218.1.40, May 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
server-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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 infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JavaScript APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersnoyesyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnononono

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