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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. openGauss vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. openGauss vs. Postgres-XL

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.ailearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.MicrosoftHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release2016201520192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release5.10, January 2022V13.0, March 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC, C++, JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoANSI SQL 2011yes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022Microsoft Azure AI SearchopenGaussPostgres-XL
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