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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. ClickHouse vs. dBASE vs. QuestDB

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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.

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series 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	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

clickhouse.com

www.dbase.com

questdb.io

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Clickhouse Inc.

Asthon Tate

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2016

1979

2014

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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)

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

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

dBase proprietary IDE

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

key based and custom

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

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.

none

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

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

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

through memory mapped files

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.

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Available regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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