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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. CrateDB

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionColumn-oriented Relational DBMS powering YandexDistributed Database based on Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score14.97
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#234  Overall
#35  Document stores
#17  Time Series DBMS
Websiteclickhouse.techcrate.io
Technical documentationclickhouse.tech/­docscrate.io/­-docs
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.Crate
Initial release20162013
Current releasev23.4.1.1943-stable, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyes, when using the MergeTree engineyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Scala info3rd party library
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesrights management via user accounts
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ClickHouseCrateDB
Specific characteristicsCrateDB is an open-source distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing...
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Competitive advantagesCrateDB is typically used in operational analytics applications. In those scenarios,...
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Typical application scenariosCrateDB is ideal for integrating and analyzing streams of data in order to monitor,...
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Key customersCrateDB customers include Bitmovin , ALPLA , Gantner Instruments , SPGo! , TGW Logistics...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCrateDB Cloud The efficiency & range of CrateDB in the Cloud CrateDB Edge brings...
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Conferences and events

CrateDB Workshop – Hands-on learning experience that introduces the fundamental concepts of CrateDB through 4 modules!
Online Workshop, 2:00 pm CEST, 28 June 2023

Finished events

Mastering Event Monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana with CrateDB Cloud
Virtual Live Demo, 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm CET, 31 May 2023 (finished)

Recent citations in the news

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6 December 2022, TechCrunch

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13 December 2022, TechTarget

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9 May 2023, The Register

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24 March 2023, Business Wire

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15 June 2021, VentureBeat

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