DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. ClickHouse vs. OpenTSDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. ClickHouse vs. OpenTSDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

clickhouse.com

opentsdb.net

www.openpie.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

clickhouse.com/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Clickhouse Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

OpenPie

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2016

2011

2019

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

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
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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