DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Informix vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Informix vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.ibm.com/products/informix

opentsdb.net

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SADAS s.r.l.

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

1984

2011

2006

2016

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

14.10.FC5, November 2020

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++ and Java

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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 capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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.

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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