DBMS > Axibase vs. ClickHouse vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. ClickHouse vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

clickhouse.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Clickhouse Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2016

1994

2011

2019

Current release

15585

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

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.

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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