DBMS > ClickHouse vs. EJDB vs. KeyDB vs. Manticore Search vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. EJDB vs. KeyDB vs. Manticore Search vs. TimesTen

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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.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.keydb.dev

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Softmotions

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Manticore Software

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2012

2019

2017

1998

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

6.0, February 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

server-less

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

in-process shared library

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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.

simple password-based access control and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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