DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tencent

Initial release

2016

1994

2014

2013

Current release

5.10, January 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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