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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Ultipa

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareWell established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#338  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Actian CorporationMicrosoftUltipa
Initial release20161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20162019
Current release5.10, January 202212.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDACC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesTransact SQL
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationIngres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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-standardyes

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