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DBMS > ClickHouse vs. GeoMesa vs. Kingbase vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. GeoMesa vs. Kingbase vs. SwayDB

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score16.31
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#271  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#385  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websiteclickhouse.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.CCRi and othersBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release2016201419992018
Current releasev23.12.1.1368-stable, December 20234.0.5, February 2024V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC and JavaScala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)noStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
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Elixir info3rd party library
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Nim info3rd party library
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Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
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C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
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Java
Kotlin
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Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeskey based and customdepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.depending on storage layeryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesdepending on storage layeryes
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.yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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