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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PouchDB vs. Tibero

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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.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

pouchdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

pouchdb.com/guides

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2016

2010

2012

2003

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

V12

7.1.1, June 2019

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

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#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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