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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Derby vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenMLDB vs. OpenSearch

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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.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

with GEO package

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

clickhouse.com

db.apache.org/derby

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

openmldb.ai

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

4 Paradigm Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

1997

2013

2020

2021

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

2024-2 February 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Java API
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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

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.

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Depending on used storage engine

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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