DBMS > ClickHouse vs. HBase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. NuoDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. HBase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. NuoDB vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	4.39
Rank	#81	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

hbase.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

doc.nuodb.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

InterSystems

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2016

2008

2018

2013

2006

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

2023.3, June 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

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
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Temporary table

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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