DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#178	Overall
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Score	21.94
Rank	#33	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.tech

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

clickhouse.tech/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2005

2016

Current release

v23.1.3.5-stable, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

hosted

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, when using the MergeTree engine

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
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
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

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