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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. NSDb vs. NuoDB vs. Qdrant vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. NSDb vs. NuoDB vs. Qdrant vs. XTDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.87
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
nsdb.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.ainsdb.io/­Architecturedoc.nuodb.comqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.QdrantJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20162017201320212019
Current release5.10, January 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJava, ScalaC++RustClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBCollection-level replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersKey-based authentication

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