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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. MariaDB vs. OrigoDB vs. RDFox vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

origodb.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

origodb.com/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Robert Friberg et al

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Rocket Software

Initial release

2016

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2009

under the name LiveDB

2017

1985

Current release

5.10, January 2022

11.3.2, February 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

optional

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

.Net

C
Java

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

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

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

Roles, resources, and access types

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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