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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. ClickHouse vs. CouchDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Kinetica

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

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 native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.28
Rank	#301	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	10.26
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

clickhouse.com

couchdb.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.kinetica.com

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Kinetica

Initial release

2016

2005

2018

2012

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

3.3.3, December 2023

0.8, December 2018

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C, C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

JavaScript

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

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 for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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