DBMS > ClickHouse vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Machbase Neo vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Machbase Neo vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

machbase.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.heavy.ai

machbase.com/dbms

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Esgyn

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Machbase

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2015

2016

2013

2008

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.10, January 2022

V8.0, August 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

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 between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

none

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

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

volatile and lookup table

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

simple password-based access control

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