DBMS > EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Spatial extension of SQLite

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Esgyn

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2016

2010

2008

1998

Current release

5.10, January 2022

V12

5.0.0, August 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Transact SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

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