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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Prometheus vs. SQLite

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchprometheus.iowww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchprometheus.io/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.GoogleMicrosoftDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20162014201520152000
Current release5.10, January 20222.1.12, February 2017V13.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptGoC
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedLinux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousing Azure authenticationnono

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