DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. ClickHouse vs. Manticore Search vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. ClickHouse vs. Manticore Search vs. YDB

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.39
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

clickhouse.com

manticoresearch.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

clickhouse.com/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Clickhouse Inc.

Manticore Software

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2016

2017

2019

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

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

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Active-passive shard replication

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

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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 managed on TSDB instance level

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 defined for Yandex Cloud users

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