DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Dgraph vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Dgraph vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM vs. SAP HANA

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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.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

dgraph.io

www.monetdb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

dgraph.io/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

MonetDB BV

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SAP

Initial release

2016

2004

1993

2010

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.4-12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

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

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

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

yes

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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.

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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