DBMS > ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Solr vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Solr vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

clickhouse.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

solr.apache.org

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.heavy.ai

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2010

2006

2016

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

5.10, January 2022

V12

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

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

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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