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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. TerminusDB vs. Vertica

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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

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
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Website

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

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2016

2014

2003

2018

2005

Current release

5.10, January 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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