DBMS > ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Warp 10

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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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

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

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.heavy.ai

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

SenX

Initial release

2016

2001

2011

2015

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.10, January 2022

3.5.1, 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, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

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 (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

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

none

Sharding

based on HBase

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

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

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 Sphinx 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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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