DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

opensearch.org/docs/latest

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2021

2005

1992

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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