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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. ClickHouse vs. Ehcache vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

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.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

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

clickhouse.com

www.ehcache.org

www.h2database.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

clickhouse.com/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Clickhouse Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Thomas Mueller

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2017

2016

2009

2005

2010

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

3.10.0, March 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

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

JCache

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

yes

by using Terracotta Server

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication
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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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