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DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Kinetica vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Kinetica vs. SurrealDB

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.77
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#247  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Websiteclickhouse.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.kinetica.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.kinetica.comsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.FairCom CorporationKineticaSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2016197920122022
Current releasev24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024V3, October 20207.1, August 2021v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++C, C++Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeskey based and customFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.yes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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.Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users and roles on table levelyes, based on authentication and database rules

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