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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Hive vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwaredata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hive.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aicwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.kinetica.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookKineticaMicrosoftquasardb
Initial release20162012201220162009
Current release5.10, January 20223.1.3, April 20227.1, August 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaC, C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsTransact SQLno
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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