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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Ehcache vs. GridDB vs. LevelDB

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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 widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

www.ehcache.org

griddb.net

github.com/google/leveldb

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.griddb.net

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Toshiba Corporation

Google

Initial release

2016

2009

2013

2011

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

3.10.0, March 2022

5.1, August 2022

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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)

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

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

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID at container level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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.

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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