DBMS > ClickHouse vs. DolphinDB vs. FatDB vs. Infobright vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. DolphinDB vs. FatDB vs. Infobright vs. Speedb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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.

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

www.dolphindb.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

DolphinDB, Inc

FatCloud

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Speedb

Initial release

2016

2018

2012

2005

2020

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community version available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
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++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

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.

Administrators, Users, Groups

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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