DBMS > ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenTSDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenTSDB vs. STSdb

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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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

manticoresearch.com

opentsdb.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.heavy.ai

manual.manticoresearch.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Manticore Software

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2017

2011

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

5.10, January 2022

6.0, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

HTTP API
Telnet API

.NET Client API

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

based on HBase

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

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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