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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
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Score2.30
Rank#127  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score5.72
Rank#66  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#379  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchorigodb.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.ailearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchorigodb.com/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.MicrosoftRobert Friberg et alSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release201620152009 infounder the name LiveDB2014
Current release5.10, January 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC#
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.NetJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationRole based authorizationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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