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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TDengine

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaMicrosoftSAP infoformerly SybaseTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20162012201419922019
Current release5.10, January 20227.1, August 202117, July 20153.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC, C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON typesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeJavaScriptyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KineticaMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereTDengine
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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