DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

IBM

Kinetica

SAP

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2014

2012

2010

2009

Current release

5.10, January 2022

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

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

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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