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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Ehcache vs. gStore vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.ehcache.org

en.gstore.cn

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Timescale

Initial release

2023

2009

2016

2017

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.2, November 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JCache

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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