DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NuoDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NuoDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

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

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP, Sybase

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

1987

1992

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

16.0

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

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
Python

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Java and Transact-SQL

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Temporary table

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.

yes

using Azure authentication

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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