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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. PostGIS vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score16.31
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#394  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#344  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteclickhouse.compostgis.netwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.MireoSTS Soft SC
Initial release2016200520202011
Current releasev23.12.1.1368-stable, December 20233.4.2, February 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CC++C#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
C#
C++
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeskey based and customyes infobased on PostgreSQLFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.yes infobased on PostgreSQLReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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 infobased on PostgreSQLyesno

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