DBMS > Blueflood vs. ClickHouse vs. Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. ClickHouse vs. Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

clickhouse.com

google.github.io/lovefield

maxdb.sap.com

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

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

clickhouse.com/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Rackspace

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2016

2014

1984

1992

Current release

v23.12.1.1368-stable, December 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

7.9.10.12, February 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

key based and custom

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

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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