DBMS > atoti vs. Blueflood vs. ClickHouse vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Blueflood vs. ClickHouse vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

clickhouse.com/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

ActiveViam

Rackspace

Clickhouse Inc.

MonetDB BV

Qdrant

Initial release

2013

2016

2004

2021

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

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.
Aiven for Clickhouse: Managed cloud data warehousing with high-speed analytics.
DoubleCloud: Fully managed ClickHouse alongside best-in-class managed open-source services to build analytics at scale.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

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

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

key based and custom

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

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 available in experimental status

Collection-level replication

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

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Key-based authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.