DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. ClickHouse vs. eXtremeDB vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. ClickHouse vs. eXtremeDB vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

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.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Spatial extension of H2

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

clickhouse.com

www.mcobject.com

www.h2gis.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

clickhouse.com/docs

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Alibaba

Clickhouse Inc.

McObject

CNRS

Embarcadero

Initial release

2016

2001

2013

1984

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

8.2, 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

support of XML interfaces available

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

based on H2

Interbase Change Views

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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.

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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