DBMS > ClickHouse vs. EsgynDB vs. HarperDB vs. Immudb vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. EsgynDB vs. HarperDB vs. Immudb vs. Netezza

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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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
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Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
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Score	9.06
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	#29	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.harperdb.io

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.immudb.io

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Esgyn

HarperDB

Codenotary

IBM

Initial release

2016

2015

2017

2020

2000

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.1, August 2021

1.2.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Node.js

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

included in appliance

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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 data manipulation statements

SQL-like syntax

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
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

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

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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