DBMS > ClickHouse vs. GridGain vs. Lovefield vs. NebulaGraph vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. GridGain vs. Lovefield vs. NebulaGraph vs. RavenDB

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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.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

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	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

clickhouse.com

www.gridgain.com

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.nebula-graph.io

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Google

Vesoft Inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2016

2007

2014

2019

2010

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

2.1.12, February 2017

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes (replicated cache)

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

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.

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Role-based access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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