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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. ClickHouse vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Yaacomo vs. YDB

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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.

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
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	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

clickhouse.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com

yaacomo.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Altibase

Clickhouse Inc.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Q2WEB GmbH

Yandex

Initial release

1999

2016

2009

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

partitioning by range, list and by hash

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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