DBMS > AgensGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

clickhouse.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

SAP, Sybase

SAP

formerly Sybase

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2016

1987

1992

2013

Current release

2.1, December 2018

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

16.0

17, July 2015

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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