DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Drizzle vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Immudb vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Drizzle vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Immudb vs. YDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is 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.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.immudb.io

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FairCom Corporation

Codenotary

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2008

1979

2020

2019

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

V3, October 2020

1.2.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

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++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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.

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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