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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset

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Name

JSqlDB 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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

clickhouse.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

opentsdb.net

rockset.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Rockset

Initial release

2016

2018

2011

2019

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST

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

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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.

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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