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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. StarRocks

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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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used open source RDBMS

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

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

machbase.com

www.mysql.com

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

machbase.com/dbms

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Machbase

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2016

2013

1995

2020

Current release

5.10, January 2022

V8.0, August 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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