DBMS > atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OushuDB

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

clickhouse.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

clickhouse.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

ActiveViam

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

Microsoft

Oushu

Initial release

2016

2010

2016

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
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
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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.

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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