DBMS > ClickHouse vs. EsgynDB vs. NuoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. EsgynDB vs. NuoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQream DB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

sqream.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

doc.nuodb.com

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Esgyn

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

1993

2017

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net
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

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

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

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Temporary table

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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