DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine

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Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

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

maxdb.sap.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

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

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2016

1984

2010

1989

2006

Current release

5.10, January 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

V12

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

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

Triggers

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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