DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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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.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.50
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.67
Rank	#75	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.92
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

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

docs.siridb.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2016

2009

2006

2017

2001

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

8.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Proprietary 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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

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

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

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 Riak Security

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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