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

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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)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

orientdb.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.objectbox.io

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2010

2013

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

3.2.29, March 2024

9.4.0, June 2024

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

BSD

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++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

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

C++ API
Java 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

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
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

horizontal partitioning

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

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

More information provided by the system vendor

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