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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Machbase Neo vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Machbase Neo vs. Netezza

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
machbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.heavy.aimachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationHEAVY.AI, Inc.MachbaseIBM
Initial release20142012201620132000
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.10, January 2022V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageDepending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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AlaSQLApache DrillHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022Machbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM
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