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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Alibaba

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

1989

2015

Current release

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Round robin

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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