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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Googlequasardb
Initial release2016201320142009
Current release5.10, January 20222.7.5, January 20242.1.12, February 20173.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAGoJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing MemoryDByes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022InfluxDBLovefieldQuasardb
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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