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

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

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

opensearch.org/docs/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2018

2016

2021

2010

Current release

5.10, January 2022

0.8, December 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

using RocksDB

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

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