DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Kdb vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Kdb vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

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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.

High performance Time Series DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

kx.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

code.kx.com

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

SAP

formerly Sybase

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2010

1992

2011

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

3.6, May 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

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#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

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

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

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

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

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

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

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.

rights management via user accounts

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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