DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TDengine

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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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2016

2014

1989

1992

2019

Current release

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

17, July 2015

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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