DBMS > ClickHouse vs. LevelDB vs. NuoDB vs. TigerGraph vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. LevelDB vs. NuoDB vs. TigerGraph vs. VelocityDB

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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.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/google/leveldb

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.tigergraph.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

doc.nuodb.com

docs.tigergraph.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2011

2013

2017

2011

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.23, February 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

C++
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

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.

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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