DBMS > ClickHouse vs. EDB Postgres vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. EDB Postgres vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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 EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

EnterpriseDB

Manticore Software

MonetDB BV

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2005

2017

2004

1992

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

14, December 2021

6.0, February 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

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