DBMS > ClickHouse vs. DataFS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. DataFS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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.

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Website

clickhouse.com

newdatabase.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

quasar.ai

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

doc.quasar.ai/master

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Mobiland AG

Microsoft

quasardb

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2018

2015

2009

2010

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.1.263, October 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with 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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

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.

Windows-Profile

yes

using Azure authentication

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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