DBMS > BigObject vs. ClickHouse vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. ClickHouse vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SWC-DB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

bigobject.io

clickhouse.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

clickhouse.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

2016

2018

1992

2020

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

17, July 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

JavaScript

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

functions in JavaScript

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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