DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

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

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2015

1989

2014

2018

Current release

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

RESTful HTTP API

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Journaling Streams

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Role-based access control

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