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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Access vs. PostGIS vs. QuestDB vs. Tibero

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesspostgis.netquestdb.ious.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aideveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesspostgis.net/­documentationquestdb.io/­docstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.MicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncTmaxSoft
Initial release20161992200520142003
Current release5.10, January 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.4.2, February 20246, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++CJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functionsnoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped filesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022Microsoft AccessPostGISQuestDBTibero
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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