DBMS > ClickHouse vs. FeatureBase vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. FeatureBase vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase

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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.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.featurebase.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.featurebase.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

MonetDB BV

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

2004

1987

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2022, May 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL queries

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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
Python

JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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