DBMS > atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. IRONdb vs. Memcached vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. IRONdb vs. Memcached vs. Warp 10

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Name

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

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.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#11	Object oriented DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

atoti.io

clickhouse.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.memcached.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

ActiveViam

Clickhouse Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SenX

Initial release

2016

2017

2003

2015

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

yes, in Lua

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

Automatic, metric affinity per node

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.

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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, 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.

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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