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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PlanetScale vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PlanetScale vs. PostGIS

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwaremSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.complanetscale.compostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aiorigodb.com/­docsplanetscale.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et alPlanetScale
Initial release201619942009 infounder the name LiveDB20202005
Current release5.10, January 20224.4, October 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDACC#GoC
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based authorizationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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