DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. ClickHouse vs. Cubrid vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. ClickHouse vs. Cubrid vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

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.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

clickhouse.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.hawkular.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

clickhouse.com/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Alibaba

Clickhouse Inc.

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Community supported by Red Hat

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

1991

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

11.0, January 2021

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 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++

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java
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

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

key based and custom

none

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.

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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