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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiteWhere

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2jsqldb.org (offline)azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMKonrad von BackstromMicrosoftSiteWhere
Initial release20161983 infohost version201820162010
Current release5.10, January 202212.1, October 20160.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree version is availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesfunctions in JavaScriptTransact SQL
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)noneyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono 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 datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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