DBMS > ClickHouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Manticore Search vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Manticore Search vs. Memcached

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Name

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 containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

manticoresearch.com

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

InterSystems

Manticore Software

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2016

2018

2017

2003

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

2023.3, June 2023

6.0, February 2023

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

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

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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.

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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