DBMS > ClickHouse vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Tarantool vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Tarantool vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SADAS s.r.l.

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2011

2006

2008

2016

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

8.0

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Open binary protocol

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#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Sharding

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

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Source-replica replication

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

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

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.

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

Access rights for users and roles

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