DBMS > ClickHouse vs. GeoMesa vs. RavenDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. GeoMesa vs. RavenDB vs. WakandaDB

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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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

ravendb.net/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

CCRi and others

Hibernating Rhinos

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2014

2010

2012

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

5.4, July 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X
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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP 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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

depending on storage layer

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.

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

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