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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.ObjectBox LimitedSAP infoformerly SybaseDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2016201719922000
Current release5.10, January 20224.0 (May 2024)17, July 20153.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022ObjectBoxSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSQLite
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