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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Dragonfly vs. GBase vs. Memcached vs. STSdb

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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.

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.gbase.cn

www.memcached.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2023

2004

2003

2011

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.0, March 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.6.25, March 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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)

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client 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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

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

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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.

Password-based authentication

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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