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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SwayDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SwayDB vs. YottaDB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsswaydb.simer.auyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.MicrosoftSimer PlahaYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2016201620182001
Current release5.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++ScalaC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of operationsoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseSwayDBYottaDB
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