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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PouchDB

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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.

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

clickhouse.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

Percona

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2012

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript 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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

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.

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Access rights for users and roles

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