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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. ClickHouse vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#39	Overall
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Score	0.51
Rank	#282	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

clickhouse.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

clickhouse.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Clickhouse Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2016

Current release

v23.7.4.5-stable, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

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

Secondary indexes

yes

yes, when using the MergeTree engine

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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
Scala

3rd party library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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