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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Cubrid vs. Dgraph vs. Ehcache 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.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

dgraph.io

www.ehcache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

dgraph.io/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2016

2008

2016

2009

1994

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

11.0, January 2021

3.10.0, March 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JCache

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

yes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Planned for future releases

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