DBMS > atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebolt vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebolt vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

ActiveViam

Clickhouse Inc.

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2020

2001

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

2022, May 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL queries

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

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

Java
Python

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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.

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