DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tarantool

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Widely used in-process key-value store

Spatial extension of SQLite

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.52
Rank	#114	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#150	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2021

1994

2008

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

server-less

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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