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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Analytics Platform for Big DataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
quasar.airethinkdb.comwww.splunk.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.quasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Splunk Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20162009200920032018
Current release5.10, January 20223.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyes 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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infowith tagsyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C 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#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange basedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and rolesno

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