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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Hypertable vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2009

2010

2014

2018

Current release

v23.12.1.1368-stable, December 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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)

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

yes

Graph Partitioning

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

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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.

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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