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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. ClickHouse vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

bangdb.com

clickhouse.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

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

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

clickhouse.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.heavy.ai

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

2016

2019

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

key based and custom

Sharding

Round robin

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

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

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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.

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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