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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. OrientDB vs. SurrealDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

clickhouse.com

orientdb.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SurrealDB Ltd

Teradata

Initial release

2013

2016

2010

2022

2005

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

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

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

R packages

Triggers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Multi-source replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

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.

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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