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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. ClickHouse vs. GreptimeDB vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name

Description

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

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.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.26
Rank	#88	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

clickhouse.com

greptime.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Greptime Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2022

2016

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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ArangoDB Cloud –The Managed Cloud Service of ArangoDB. Provides fully managed, and monitored cluster deployments of any size, with enterprise-grade security. Get started for free and continue for as little as $0,21/hour.

ClickHouse Cloud: Get the performance you love from open source ClickHouse in a serverless offering that takes care of the details so you can spend more time getting insight out of the fastest database on earth.
Aiven for Clickhouse: Managed cloud data warehousing with high-speed analytics.
DoubleCloud: Fully managed ClickHouse alongside best-in-class managed open-source services to build analytics at scale.

Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

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

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

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++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

key based and custom

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

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

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

yes

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.

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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