DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Dragonfly vs. Galaxybase vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Dragonfly vs. Galaxybase vs. RDF4J

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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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

clickhouse.com

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

galaxybase.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2023

2017

2004

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.0, March 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

Strong typed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + 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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

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

Go
Java
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

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

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

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Role-based access control

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