DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Quasardb vs. SurrealDB vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Quasardb vs. SurrealDB vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10

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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.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

quasar.ai

surrealdb.com

github.com/torodb/server

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

surrealdb.com/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

quasardb

SurrealDB Ltd

8Kdata

SenX

Initial release

2016

2009

2022

2016

2015

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

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.

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users and roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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