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

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

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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

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

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

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

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

www.tarantool.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

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

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

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Alessandro Furieri

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1994

2008

2018

Current release

5.10, January 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

2.10.0, May 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

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

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

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

C++

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

server-less

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Open binary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

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

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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