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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Netezza vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­netezzapouchdb.comrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aipouchdb.com/­guidesrethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhere
Initial release20162000201220092010
Current release5.10, January 20227.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoincluded in applianceserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnonoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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