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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orggreenplum.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
boilerbay.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.greenplum.orgdocs.heavy.aiboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffPivotal Software Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.
Initial release2014200520162002
Current release7.0.0, September 20235.10, January 20224.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ and CUDAJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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 infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
Java
Perl
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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