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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLA 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 DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#289  Overall
#131  Relational 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.combrytlyt.ioclickhouse.comwww.snowflake.comsqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.brytlyt.ioclickhouse.com/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAltibaseBrytlytClickhouse Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release19992016201620142017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0, August 2023v24.6.2.17-stable, July 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C, C++ and CUDAC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes 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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
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 functionsuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingkey based and customyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationAsynchronous 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 integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess 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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