DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

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.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

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

splicemachine.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.heavy.ai

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

FairCom Corporation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Splice Machine

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

1979

2016

2014

2012

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

V3, October 2020

5.10, January 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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DoubleCloud: Fully managed ClickHouse alongside best-in-class managed open-source services to build analytics at scale.
Aiven for Clickhouse: Managed cloud data warehousing with high-speed analytics.

Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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