DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed 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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.monetdb.org

www.timescale.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

MonetDB BV

Timescale

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2014

2004

2017

2009

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.13.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding via remote tables

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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