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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. OrientDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.kingbase.com.cn

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Circonus LLC.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2016

2017

1999

2010

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

V8.0, August 2021

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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