DBMS > ClickHouse vs. EsgynDB vs. MonetDB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. EsgynDB vs. MonetDB vs. Raima Database Manager 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.

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#261	Overall
	#122	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.raima.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Esgyn

MonetDB BV

Raima Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2015

2004

1984

1992

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

15, June 2021

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

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

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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News

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