DBMS > ClickHouse vs. jBASE vs. Riak KV vs. Tibero vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. jBASE vs. Riak KV vs. Tibero vs. TimesTen

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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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.50
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.39
Rank	#154	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	1.40
Rank	#153	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

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

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

TmaxSoft

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

1991

2009

2003

1998

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

5.7

3.2.0, December 2022

7, September 2022

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

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.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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