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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. ClickHouse vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA 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.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score2.79
Rank#97  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score16.25
Rank#37  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score140.60
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#225  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comdruid.apache.orgclickhouse.comwww.snowflake.comsqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designclickhouse.com/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsClickhouse Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release19992012201620142017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202330.0.0, June 2024v24.6.2.17-stable, July 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedkey based and customyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess 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.Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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