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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenEdge vs. RavenDB vs. SQL.JS

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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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

ravendb.net/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Hibernating Rhinos

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

1989

1984

2010

2012

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C++

C++

C#

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

no

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.

no

yes

yes

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

yes

no

Triggers

no

yes

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

yes

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

ACID

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes

no

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

Users and groups

Authorization levels configured per client per database

no

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