DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

www.sadasengine.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

1989

2009

2006

2012

Current release

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Erlang

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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

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