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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Drizzle vs. eXtremeDB vs. OpenMLDB

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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.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.mcobject.com

openmldb.ai

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

McObject

4 Paradigm Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2001

2020

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

8.2, 2021

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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 access rights according to SQL-standard

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