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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Typesense

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  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 JavaScriptDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Spatial extension of SQLiteA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#219  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefieldrethinkdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indextypesense.org
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdrethinkdb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmltypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.GoogleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20162014200920082015
Current release5.10, January 20222.1.12, February 20172.4.1, August 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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 MemoryDBnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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