DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. MySQL vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. MySQL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Widely used open source RDBMS

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
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Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.monetdb.org

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

MonetDB BV

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2014

2004

1995

1998

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

proprietary syntax

PL/SQL

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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