DBMS > ClickHouse vs. PieCloudDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. PieCloudDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Yanza 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.

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.openpie.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yanza.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

OpenPie

Mireo

Yanza

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2016

2020

2015

2017

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.1, January 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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.

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

yes

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