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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RDFox vs. Sphinx

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#309  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.exasol.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.oxfordsemantic.techsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.heavy.aidocs.oxfordsemantic.techsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperExasolHEAVY.AI, Inc.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2000201620172001
Current release5.10, January 20226.0, Septermber 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesno

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