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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. GridGain vs. Hive

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Name

Description

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.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

clickhouse.com

www.gridgain.com

hive.apache.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2013

2016

2007

2012

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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 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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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