DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Databricks vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Databricks vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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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.

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	78.61
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.databricks.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.databricks.com

memgraph.com/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Social network pages

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Databricks

Kyligence, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2013

2016

2017

2016

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

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

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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)

with Databricks SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
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

Python
R
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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.

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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