DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Cubrid vs. Ehcache vs. Geode vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Cubrid vs. Ehcache vs. Geode vs. JaguarDB

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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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

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

www.ehcache.org

geode.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

www.ehcache.org/documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2009

2002

2015

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

11.0, January 2021

3.10.0, March 2022

1.1, February 2017

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no 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

JCache

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

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

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

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)

Eventual Consistency

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

yes, on a single node

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

Access rights per client and object definable

rights management via user accounts

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