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DBMS > H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.marklogic.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.heavy.aidocs.marklogic.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperCNRSHEAVY.AI, Inc.MarkLogic Corp.MicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20132016200120152014
Current release5.10, January 202211.0, December 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL92noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2noyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replicationyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, with Range Indexesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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