DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Graphite vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Graphite vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

realm.io

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

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Chris Davis

Oracle

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2006

2011

2014

1992

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

23.3, December 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Unix

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

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

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

off heap cache

yes

In-Memory realm

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 rights for users and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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