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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. ClickHouse vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

druid.apache.org

clickhouse.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

clickhouse.com/docs

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

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Clickhouse Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

2009

Current release

2.1, December 2018

29.0.1, April 2024

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL for querying

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

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

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

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

key based and custom

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

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

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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

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