DBMS > AntDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. Rockset

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

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.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

clickhouse.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rockset.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.rockset.com

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Clickhouse Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Embarcadero

Rockset

Initial release

2016

2008

1984

2019

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

export as XML data possible

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

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

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

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.

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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