DBMS > BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Datomic vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Datomic vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

clickhouse.com

www.datomic.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.datomic.com

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Cognitect

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2013

2016

2012

2016

1994

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

1.0.7075, December 2023

5.10, January 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Clojure

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

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

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

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

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