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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak KV vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak KV vs. YTsaurus

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector 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
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.heavy.ailearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHEAVY.AI, Inc.MicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesYandex
Initial release20142016201520092023
Current release5.10, January 2022V13.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ and CUDAErlangC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Ubuntu
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnonoYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoErlang
Triggersyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
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 FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationyes, using Riak SecurityAccess Control Lists

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