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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#118  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.30
Rank#127  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#229  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score37.49
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hypertable Inc.KineticaSAP, Sybase
Initial release20122016200920121987
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.10, January 20220.9.8.11, March 20167.1, August 202116.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++C, C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnonorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesC++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonouser defined functionsJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersnononoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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