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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Machbase Neo vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EDB Postgres vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Machbase Neo vs. Yanza

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
machbase.comyanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.heavy.aimachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffEnterpriseDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.MachbaseYanza
Initial release20142005201620132015
Current release14, December 20215.10, January 2022V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonono
Triggersyesyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infoRound robinShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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