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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.monetdb.orgnsdb.iordf4j.orgwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aiwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturerdf4j.org/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.MonetDB BVSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20162004201720042006
Current release5.10, January 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 20238.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDACJava, ScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinSharding via remote tablesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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