DBMS > Coveo vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.coveo.com

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

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

www.sadasengine.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

docs.heavy.ai

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Coveo

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2016

1989

2006

1992

Current release

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version 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

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Round robin

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

ACID

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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