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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for 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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series 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	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.hawkular.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

nsdb.io/Architecture

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2016

2014

2017

2012

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Go

C++

Java

Java, Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

no

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

no

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

no

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

no

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go

C#

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

no

no

no

Triggers

no

no

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

no

no

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

Using Apache Lucene

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

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.

no

no

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