DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Memgraph vs. OpenQM vs. Sequoiadb vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Memgraph vs. OpenQM vs. Sequoiadb vs. TDengine

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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.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

memgraph.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

memgraph.com/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.tdengine.com

Social network pages

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Sequoiadb Ltd.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2016

2017

1993

2013

2019

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

3.4-12

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
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

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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.

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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