DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere vs. WakandaDB

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

SAP, formerly Sybase

SiteWhere

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2014

1994

2010

2012

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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