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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Derby vs. HBase vs. mSQL vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

db.apache.org/derby

hbase.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Hughes Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1997

2008

1994

2018

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Role-based access control

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