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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenMLDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

openmldb.ai

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

4 Paradigm Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2014

2020

1993

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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