DBMS > Altibase vs. ClickHouse vs. EDB Postgres vs. Quasardb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. ClickHouse vs. EDB Postgres vs. Quasardb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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.

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Altibase

Clickhouse Inc.

EnterpriseDB

quasardb

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1999

2016

2005

2009

1987

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

14, December 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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