DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. ClickHouse vs. GBase vs. Manticore Search vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. ClickHouse vs. GBase vs. Manticore Search vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

clickhouse.com/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Amazon

Clickhouse Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Manticore Software

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2015

2016

2004

2017

2010

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

6.0, February 2023

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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.

yes

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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