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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine vs. TerminusDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTime Series DBMS and big data platformScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.snowflake.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos DataDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2016201420192018
Current release5.10, January 20223.0, August 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDACProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes, via alarm monitoringyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinyesShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesRole-based access control
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022SnowflakeTDengineTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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