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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. ClickHouse vs. JSqlDb vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA 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.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score15.55
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbclickhouse.comjsqldb.org (offline)www.snowflake.comsqream.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesclickhouse.com/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.Konrad von BackstromSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20192016201820142017
Current releasev24.4.1.2088-stable, May 20240.8, December 20182022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
JavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesfunctions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonekey based and customnoneyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.noneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess 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.Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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