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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Doris vs. ClickHouse vs. Ignite

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

clickhouse.com

ignite.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

clickhouse.com/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2017

2016

2015

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL client

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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.

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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