DBMS > ClickHouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Tarantool vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Tarantool vs. Teradata

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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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.tarantool.io

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

InterSystems

SAP, Sybase

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2018

1987

2008

1984

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

2023.3, June 2023

16.0

2.10.0, May 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Open binary protocol

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Sharding

Hashing

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Multi-source replication
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

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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