DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

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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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.hawkular.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2016

2014

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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.

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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