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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwaremSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#378  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.92
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.compostgis.netprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aiorigodb.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et al
Initial release201619942009 infounder the name LiveDB20052015
Current release5.10, January 20224.4, October 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDACC#CGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesNumeric data only
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based authorizationyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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