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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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 JavaScriptLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.GoogleObjectBox LimitedSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2016201420171992
Current release5.10, January 20222.1.12, February 20174.0 (May 2024)17, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022LovefieldObjectBoxSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
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