DBMS > ClickHouse vs. InfluxDB vs. Kdb vs. LMDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. InfluxDB vs. Kdb vs. LMDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

High performance Time Series DBMS

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

kx.com

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

code.kx.com

www.lmdb.tech/doc

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Symas

Rocket Software

Initial release

2016

2013

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2011

1985

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

3.6, May 2018

0.9.32, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based 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
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

none

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

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

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 used storage engine

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.

simple rights management via user accounts

rights management via user accounts

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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