DBMS > atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

clickhouse.com

hive.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

clickhouse.com/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

ActiveViam

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

1994

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.1.3, April 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

selectable replication factor

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (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

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 rights for users, groups and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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