DBMS > ClickHouse vs. GraphDB vs. MonetDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. GraphDB vs. MonetDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SurrealDB

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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.

Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#91	Overall
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.ontotext.com

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

surrealdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Ontotext

MonetDB BV

SAP

formerly Sybase

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2016

2000

2004

1992

2022

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

10.4, October 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

17, July 2015

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding via remote tables

none

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

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

yes

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

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.

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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