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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. SurrealDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

google.github.io/lovefield

surrealdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

surrealdb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

SurrealDB Ltd

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2023

2016

2014

2022

2019

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

v1.1.1, January 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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