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DBMS > ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. XTDB

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score16.31
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score2.30
Rank#127  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score78.51
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#336  Overall
#48  Document stores
Websiteclickhouse.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docsdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.GoogleMicrosoftJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20162016201420102019
Current releasev23.12.1.1368-stable, December 20235.10, January 20222.1.12, February 2017V121.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAJavaScriptC++Clojure
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoTransact SQLno
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeskey based and customSharding infoRound robinnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.Multi-source replicationnoneyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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