DBMS > Axibase vs. ClickHouse vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. ClickHouse vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS

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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.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

clickhouse.com

www.sadasengine.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Clickhouse Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2016

2006

1992

2012

Current release

15585

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

8.0

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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ClickHouse Cloud: Get the performance you love from open source ClickHouse in a serverless offering that takes care of the details so you can spend more time getting insight out of the fastest database on earth.
DoubleCloud: Fully managed ClickHouse alongside best-in-class managed open-source services to build analytics at scale.
Aiven for Clickhouse: Managed cloud data warehousing with high-speed analytics.

Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

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.

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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.

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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