DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MySQL

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.kinetica.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.kinetica.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Kinetica

Microsoft

Percona

Initial release

2016

2009

2012

1989

2008

Current release

5.10, January 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

7.1, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

C, C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

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

Immediate Consistency

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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