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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. ClickHouse vs. Dgraph vs. JSqlDb vs. Snowflake

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Name

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

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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 and scalable native Graph DBMS

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

clickhouse.com

dgraph.io

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

clickhouse.com/docs

dgraph.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Clickhouse Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2016

2018

2014

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

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

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

yes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

using RocksDB

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

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.

Planned for future releases

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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