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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

atoti.io

clickhouse.com

www.progress.com/marklogic

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

clickhouse.com/docs

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

ActiveViam

Clickhouse Inc.

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2001

2010

2015

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

11.0, December 2022

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes, with Range Indexes

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.

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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