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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. MarkLogic vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. MarkLogic vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.marklogic.comwww.snowflake.comsqream.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.marklogic.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.MarkLogic Corp.Snowflake Computing Inc.SQream TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162001201420172014
Current release5.10, January 202211.0, December 20222022.1.6, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL92yesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptuser defined functionsuser defined functions in PythonJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingyeshorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyesnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACIDACID
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, with Range Indexesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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