DBMS > chDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison chDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

clickhouse.com

www.kinetica.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.kinetica.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Kinetica

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2023

2016

2012

2014

1984

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

7.1, August 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

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 roles on table level

Users and groups

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