HeavyDB

Abandoned Project Acquired Company OLAP

HeavyDB is a relational, columnar database engine that uses GPUs to accelerate query execution.

History

The DBMS was changed from their original name 'MapD' to OmniSci in 2018. It was then renamed again to HeavyDB in 2022.

The company was acquired in 2025 by Nvidia and the project was abandoned.

• https://www.omnisci.com/blog/announcing-omniscis-55m-series-c-funding-round
• https://www.heavy.ai/news/omnisci-announces-rebrand-to-heavy-ai-to-mark-a-new-era-of-advanced-analytics-for-time-sensitive-decision-making-at-enterprise-scale

Website

https://www.heavy.ai/

Source Code

https://github.com/heavyai/heavydb

Tech Docs

https://docs.heavy.ai/

Twitter

@heavy_ai

Developer

HEAVY.AI

Country of Origin

US

Start Year

2013

• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mapd

End Year

2025

Former Name

MapD, OmniSci

Acquired By

Nvidia

• https://www.harvestmp.com/transactions

Project Type

Commercial, Open Source

Written in

C++

Licenses

Apache v2

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEAVY.AI