DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Netezza vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Netezza vs. Tibero

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

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	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mysql.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

IBM

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2016

2014

1995

2000

2003

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

8.4.0, April 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

C and C++

C and Assembler

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

Linux

included in appliance

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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