# The billion docs JSON Challenge: ClickHouse vs. MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and more

DevFeed: [The billion docs JSON Challenge: ClickHouse vs. MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and more](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-billion-docs-json-challenge-clickhouse-vs-mongodb-elasticsearch-and-more-5358.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/json-bench-clickhouse-vs-mongodb-elasticsearch-duckdb-postgresql>)

Author: Tom Schreiber

Published: 2025-01-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: comparison

Language: en

Sources: [ClickHouse Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clickhouse-blog.md>)

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [JSON](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [DuckDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/duckdb.md>), [elasticsearch](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/elasticsearch.md>), [MongoDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mongodb.md>), [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>)

Tags: [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [duckdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/duckdb.md>), [elasticsearch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/elasticsearch.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [mongodb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mongodb.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>)

## AI overview

ClickHouse presents JSONBench, a reproducible comparison of JSON storage size and analytical-query performance across ClickHouse, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, DuckDB, and PostgreSQL using one billion JSON documents.

## Source excerpt

Explore how ClickHouse's new JSON data type outperforms leading JSON databases with unmatched storage efficiency and lightning-fast query speed--all while storing JSON data in a single field and staying true to the promise of JSON databases