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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. openGauss vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareIn-memory JavaScript DBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aitechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
docs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Huawei and openGauss communityOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release2016201420191994
Current release5.10, January 20223.0, March 202218.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC, C++, JavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoANSI SQL 2011yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
.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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
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.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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