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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. ClickHouse vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.25
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	140.60
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#225	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.bangdb.com

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Altibase

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Clickhouse Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1999

2012

2016

2014

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD 3

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++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL like support with command line tool

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

key based and custom

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

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.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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