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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Coveo vs. Databricks vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LeanXcale

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.coveo.comwww.databricks.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.coveo.comdocs.databricks.comdocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCoveoDatabricksHEAVY.AI, Inc.LeanXcale
Initial release20142012201320162015
Current release5.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nowith Databricks SQLyesyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AlaSQLCoveoDatabricksHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022LeanXcale
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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