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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. ScyllaDB vs. TDengine

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA 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 simplicityMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.34
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websiteclickhouse.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.scylladb.comdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.Circonus LLC.MicrosoftScyllaDBTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20162017199220152019
Current releasev24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024V0.10.20, January 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++C++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes, Luano
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeskey based and customAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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.nono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users can be defined per objectyes
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ClickHouseIRONdbMicrosoft AccessScyllaDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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