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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. ObjectBox vs. SpatiaLite vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Spatial extension of SQLite

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

objectbox.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.objectbox.io

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Alessandro Furieri

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2017

2008

2016

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native 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
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

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