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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.heavy.ai

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2010

2014

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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