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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
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Score	0.33
Rank	#270	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Initial release

2023

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

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

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

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

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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