DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Datomic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Datomic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere 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.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.datomic.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.datomic.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Cognitect

Percona

SAP

formerly Sybase

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

1992

2010

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.0.7075, December 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Clojure

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

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

Clojure
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

JavaScript

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

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

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.

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

via In-Memory Engine

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.

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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