DBMS > ClickHouse vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. ScyllaDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. ScyllaDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server 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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.scylladb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.scylladb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Sybase, SAP

ScyllaDB

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2014

1993

2015

2018

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

in-memory tables

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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