DBMS > ClickHouse vs. MaxDB vs. Netezza vs. OrigoDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. MaxDB vs. Netezza vs. OrigoDB vs. Rockset

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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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

clickhouse.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

origodb.com

rockset.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

origodb.com/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

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

IBM

Robert Friberg et al

Rockset

Initial release

2016

1984

2000

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

dynamic typing

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.

can be achieved using .NET

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST

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
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Automatic 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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role based authorization

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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