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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. ClickHouse vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA 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.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score15.55
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgclickhouse.comrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.auvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsclickhouse.com/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software FoundationClickhouse Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122016200920182011
Current release1.20.3, January 2023v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 20242.4.1, August 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
.Net
Supported programming languagesC++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
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingkey based and customSharding inforange basednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess 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.yes infousers and table-level permissionsnoBased on Windows Authentication

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