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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.snowflake.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comdocs.heavy.ailearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsHEAVY.AI, Inc.MicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20172016201520142009
Current release2022, May 20225.10, January 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++ and CUDAJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linuxhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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