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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA 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.High performance Time Series DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score16.25
Rank#37  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score7.72
Rank#45  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score140.60
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#225  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comclickhouse.comkx.comwww.snowflake.comsqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsclickhouse.com/­docscode.kx.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAltibaseClickhouse Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release199920162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320142017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023v24.6.2.17-stable, July 20243.6, May 20182022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++qC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'no
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)SQL-like query language (q)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
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
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnoyes infowith viewsno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingkey based and customhorizontal partitioningyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.Source-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine 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.rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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AltibaseClickHouseKdbSnowflakeSQream DB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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