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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. openGauss vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Huawei and openGauss community

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2019

2011

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.0, March 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

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 for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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