DBMS > ClickHouse vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. SAP IQ

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.marklogic.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.marklogic.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

MarkLogic Corp.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2014

2001

1994

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

11.0, December 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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)

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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

yes, with Range Indexes

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.

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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