DBMS > ClickHouse vs. GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Access

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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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.gbase.cn

hazelcast.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hazelcast

IBM

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2004

2008

1983

host version

1992

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.3.6, November 2023

12.1, October 2016

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Replicated Map

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

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 selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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.

yes

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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