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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. ClickHouse vs. etcd

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing 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.

A distributed reliable key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

atoti.io

clickhouse.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.atoti.io

clickhouse.com/docs

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

ActiveViam

Clickhouse Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

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.

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