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DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Infobright vs. OceanBase vs. Pinecone vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Infobright vs. OceanBase vs. Pinecone vs. SAP HANA

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLA managed, cloud-native vector databaseIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#207  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score2.36
Rank#105  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score2.94
Rank#84  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score35.22
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websiteclickhouse.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdben.oceanbase.comwww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docsen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewhelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupPinecone Systems, IncSAP
Initial release20162005201020192010
Current releasev24.6.2.17-stable, July 20244.3.0, April 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoCommercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
LinuxhostedAppliance or cloud-service
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
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#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeSQLScript, R
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeskey based and customnonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)yes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication using Paxosyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
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.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes

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