DBMS > ClickHouse vs. DolphinDB vs. GeoSpock vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. DolphinDB vs. GeoSpock vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines 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.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series 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	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

www.dolphindb.com

geospock.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

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

pouchdb.com/guides

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

DolphinDB, Inc

GeoSpock

Apache Software Foundation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2018

2012

2009

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.0, September 2019

7.1.1, June 2019

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

via views

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

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

JDBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes, using Riak Security

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