DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

postgis.net

rocksdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

1991

2005

2013

2012

Current release

5.10, January 2022

5.7

3.4.2, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple authentication-based access control

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