DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.teradata.com

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Kinetica

SAP

Teradata

Initial release

2016

1991

2012

2010

1984

Current release

5.10, January 2022

5.7

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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