DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. ClickHouse vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Percona Server for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. ClickHouse vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

clickhouse.com

www.hawkular.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

clickhouse.com/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.heavy.ai

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Clickhouse Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Percona

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

2016

2008

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.10, January 2022

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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