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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. ClickHouse vs. PostGIS vs. STSdb vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

clickhouse.com

postgis.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

clickhouse.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Rackspace

Clickhouse Inc.

STS Soft SC

Yandex

Initial release

2013

2016

2005

2011

2019

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

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#
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

key based and custom

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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