DBMS > atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenMLDB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenMLDB vs. Prometheus

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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 multi-model DBMS and application server

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

atoti.io

clickhouse.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

openmldb.ai

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.intersystems.com

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

ActiveViam

Clickhouse Inc.

InterSystems

4 Paradigm Inc.

Initial release

2016

1997

2020

2015

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

C#
C++
Java

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

none

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.

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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, 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.

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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