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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareWidely used in-process key-value storeOracles in-memory data grid solutionSpatial extension of SQLiteA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleOracleAlessandro FurieriSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20161994200720082022
Current release5.10, January 202218.1.40, May 202014.1, August 20235.0.0, August 2020v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDconfigurableACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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