DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. searchxml vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. searchxml vs. Splice Machine

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.searchxml.net/category/products

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Splice Machine

Initial release

2016

2014

2015

2014

Current release

5.10, January 2022

1.0

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q4 2023
11 October 2023, insideBIGDATA

Big Data Analytics: A Game Changer for Infrastructure
13 July 2023, Spiceworks News and Insights

HEAVY.AI Launches HEAVY 7.0, Introducing Real-Time Machine Learning Capabilities
19 April 2023, Business Wire

OmniSci Gets HEAVY New Name and New CEO
1 March 2022, Datanami

Making the most of geospatial intelligence
14 April 2023, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

LokiJS - A JavaScript Database
18 November 2014, iProgrammer

provided by Google News

Machine learning data pipeline outfit Splice Machine files for insolvency
26 August 2021, The Register

Splice Machine Launches Feature Store to Simplify Feature Engineering
19 January 2021, Datanami

New Splice Machine RDBMS unites OLTP and OLAP
18 November 2015, CIO

Big Data News: Splice Machine, Carpathia, Altiscale, DataGravity
11 February 2014, Data Center Knowledge

Hadoop-based RDBMS Now Available from Splice
12 May 2014, Datanami

provided by Google News

Share this page