DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

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

quasar.ai

rethinkdb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

rethinkdb.com/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

quasardb

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2015

2009

2010

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

range based

Sharding

based on HBase

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

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

users and table-level permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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