DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

orientdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2009

2010

1992

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.2.29, March 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

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++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

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
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java, Javascript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

none

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 on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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 can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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