DBMS > ClickHouse vs. OpenTSDB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. RDF4J vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. OpenTSDB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. RDF4J vs. Spark SQL

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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.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#121	Relational DBMS
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.raima.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Raima Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2011

1984

2004

2014

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

15, June 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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.

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News

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29 February 2024

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v15, a Powerful Embedded Time Series Database
10 June 2021

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8 October 2020

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1 October 2020

Raima Expands Their Reseller Network in Asia
19 May 2020

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