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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. DolphinDB vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.19
Rank	#39	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#92	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1111.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.dolphindb.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.dolphindb.com/help

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

DolphinDB, Inc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2018

1995

Current release

v23.7.4.5-stable, August 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.1.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes, when using the MergeTree engine

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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
Scala

3rd party library

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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