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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Kinetica vs. MaxDB vs. Tibero

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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.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.kinetica.com

maxdb.sap.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.kinetica.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Kinetica

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2016

2012

1984

2003

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

7.1, August 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

7, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

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
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

planned for next version

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 and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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