DBMS > gStore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

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

siridb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.heavy.ai

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.siridb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Cesbit

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2009

2017

2008

Current release

1.2, November 2023

5.10, January 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

simple rights management via user accounts

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