DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Derby vs. Dolt vs. Memcached vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Derby vs. Dolt vs. Memcached vs. Weaviate

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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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.memcached.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.dolthub.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

DoltHub Inc

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

1997

2018

2003

2019

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1.6.27, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

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

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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