DBMS > Databend vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

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

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Databend Labs

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2021

2016

2015

2014

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

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

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

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

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