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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. YottaDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
pouchdb.comrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aipouchdb.com/­guidesrethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Apache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhereYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20162012200920102001
Current release5.10, January 20227.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP RESTPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022PouchDBRethinkDBSiteWhereYottaDB
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