DBMS > ClickHouse vs. GigaSpaces vs. Machbase Neo vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. GigaSpaces vs. Machbase Neo vs. Spark SQL

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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.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

machbase.com/dbms

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Gigaspaces Technologies

Machbase

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2000

2013

2014

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

15.5, September 2020

V8.0, August 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

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

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

volatile and lookup table

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.

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

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