DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. JaguarDB vs. Rockset vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. JaguarDB vs. Rockset vs. Splunk

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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.

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

clickhouse.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com

www.jaguardb.com

rockset.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.rockset.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

DataJaguar, Inc.

Rockset

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2019

2003

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantages

Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Market metrics

Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing models

Core based licensing
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