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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareIn-memory JavaScript DBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrocksdb.orgwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aitechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Facebook, Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2016201420132013
Current release5.10, January 20229.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JavaScript APIC++ API
Java API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoJavaScript
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyesDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonosimple password-based access control

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