DBMS > AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

clickhouse.com

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

www.monetdb.org

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.heavy.ai

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Clickhouse Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

MonetDB BV

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2014

2016

2004

2011

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.10, January 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

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

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