DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RisingWave vs. Sadas Engine vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RisingWave vs. Sadas Engine vs. YottaDB

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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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

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

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

www.risingwave.com/database

www.sadasengine.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

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

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

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

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

RisingWave Labs

SADAS s.r.l.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

1989

2022

2006

2001

Current release

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.2, September 2023

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 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

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

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

yes

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

optimistic locking

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'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and Roles

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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