DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Kinetica vs. OrigoDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Kinetica vs. OrigoDB vs. SQream DB

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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.

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.kinetica.com

origodb.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

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

docs.kinetica.com

origodb.com/docs

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Kinetica

Robert Friberg et al

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

1979

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

2017

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

V3, October 2020

7.1, August 2021

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

C, C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

.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

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

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.

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

depending on model

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

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.

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Role based authorization

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