DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Datomic vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Datomic vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

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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

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

clickhouse.com

www.datomic.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

rocksdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.datomic.com

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Cognitect

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2013

2020

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

1.0.7075, December 2023

8.0.36-28, 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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