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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. ClickHouse vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. QuestDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

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.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

clickhouse.com

www.datomic.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

questdb.io

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.datomic.com

docs.intersystems.com

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Clickhouse Inc.

Cognitect

InterSystems

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2014

2016

2012

1997

2014

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

1.0.7075, December 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Clojure

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Java

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

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.

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

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