DBMS > ClickHouse vs. JanusGraph vs. MonetDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. JanusGraph vs. MonetDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TiDB

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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 Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	4.94
Rank	#72	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

janusgraph.org

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

MonetDB BV

SAP

formerly Sybase

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2004

1992

2016

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

0.6.3, February 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

17, July 2015

7.6.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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DoubleCloud: Fully managed ClickHouse alongside best-in-class managed open-source services to build analytics at scale.
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TiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.

Implementation language

C++

Java

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

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

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding via remote tables

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

full support since version 6.6

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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.

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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