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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Pinecone vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Pinecone vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA managed, cloud-native vector databaseCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.19
Rank#164  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score3.17
Rank#81  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#383  Overall
#22  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.pinecone.iowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release201620192023
Current release5.10, January 20221.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, BooleanVector, Numeric and String
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
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
PythonC++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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