DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.immudb.io

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Codenotary

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2020

2016

2014

Current release

5.10, January 2022

1.2.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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