DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.scylladb.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aiopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.scylladb.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Amazon Web ServicesScyllaDBSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2016202120152014
Current release5.10, January 20222.5.0, January 2023ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
  • STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
  • Aiven for OpenSearch: Fully managed open source search and analytics suite. Out-of-the-box integrations get you up and running in a couple of clicks.
Scylla Cloud: Create real-time applications that run at global scale with Scylla Cloud, the industry’s most powerful NoSQL DBaaS
Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, Luauser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022OpenSearchScyllaDBSnowflake
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
» more
ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
» more
Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
» more
Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
» more
Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
» more
ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
» more
Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
» more
Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
» more
ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services
3rd partiesAiven for OpenSearch: Fully managed open source search and analytics suite. Out-of-the-box integrations get you up and running in a couple of clicks.
» more
CData: Connect to Big Data & NoSQL through standard Drivers.
» more

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022OpenSearchScyllaDBSnowflake
DB-Engines blog posts

Snowflake is the DBMS of the Year 2022, defending the title from last year
3 January 2023, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

Snowflake is the DBMS of the Year 2021
3 January 2022, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

HEAVY.AI Launches HEAVY 7.0, Introducing Real-Time Machine Learning Capabilities
19 April 2023, Business Wire

Big Data Analytics: A Game Changer for Infrastructure
13 July 2023, Spiceworks News and Insights

HEAVY.AI Partners with Bain, Maxar, and Nvidia to Provide Digital Twins for Telecom Networks
16 February 2023, Datanami

Making the most of geospatial intelligence
14 April 2023, InfoWorld

The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q4 2023
11 October 2023, insideBIGDATA

provided by Google News

Modernize your data observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon S3 | Amazon ...
5 June 2024, AWS Blog

Behind the Scenes: Upgrading OpenSearch efficiency with OCI flexible vertical scaling
13 February 2024, blogs.oracle.com

Optimize storage costs in Amazon OpenSearch Service using Zstandard compression | Amazon Web Services
11 June 2024, AWS Blog

OCI Search with OpenSearch 2.11 delivers easy access to latest AI innovations
13 March 2024, blogs.oracle.com

Simplify your query management with search templates in Amazon OpenSearch Service | Amazon Web Services
3 April 2024, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla
26 April 2024, InfoQ.com

ScyllaDB Raises $43M to Take on MongoDB at Scale, Push Database Performance to New Levels
17 October 2023, Datanami

ScyllaDB on AWS is a NoSQL Database Built for Gigabyte-to-Petabyte Scale | Amazon Web Services
6 January 2023, AWS Blog

ScyllaDB Database Review | eWeek
21 August 2018, eWeek

Scylla review: Apache Cassandra supercharged
18 December 2019, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever
6 June 2024, WIRED

Hackers steal “significant volume” of data from hundreds of Snowflake customers
10 June 2024, Ars Technica

Mandiant says hackers stole a 'significant volume of data' from Snowflake customers
10 June 2024, TechCrunch

Pure Storage confirms data breach after Snowflake account hack
11 June 2024, BleepingComputer

Ticketmaster's Snowflake data breach was just one of 165
11 June 2024, The Verge

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here