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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. ObjectBox vs. OrientDB vs. RRDtool

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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.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

orientdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.objectbox.io

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2016

2017

2010

1999

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

3.2.29, March 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

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

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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.

yes

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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