DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

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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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net

ravendb.net

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Hibernating Rhinos

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

2014

2011

2010

2020

Current release

5.10, January 2022

5.4, July 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API
Telnet API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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