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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. ClickHouse vs. IBM Db2 vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

clickhouse.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

clickhouse.com/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

DGraph Labs

Clickhouse Inc.

IBM

Yandex

Initial release

2017

2016

1983

host version

2023

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Ubuntu

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

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#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

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

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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