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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQream DB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aispotify.github.io/­heroicdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.SpotifyMicrosoftSQream Technologies
Initial release2016201419922017
Current release5.10, January 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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