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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. openGauss vs. PlanetScale vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. openGauss vs. PlanetScale vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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 CPUsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
planetscale.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
planetscale.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaHuawei and openGauss communityPlanetScaleSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20162012201920201992
Current release5.10, January 20227.1, August 20213.0, March 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC, C++C, C++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL 2011yes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesyes infoproprietary syntaxyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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 RAMnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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