DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Newts vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Newts vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

clickhouse.com

www.hawkular.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

clickhouse.com/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Clickhouse Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2014

2007

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
Java API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

key based and custom

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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.

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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