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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hive vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwaredata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hive.apache.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.heavy.aicwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerHEAVY.AI, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookRockset
Initial release20142005201620122019
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.10, January 20223.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++ and CUDAJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoRound robinShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual 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 FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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