DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Databend vs. InfluxDB vs. Rockset vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Databend vs. InfluxDB vs. Rockset vs. SingleStore

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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.

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rockset.com

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.databend.com

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.rockset.com

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Databend Labs

Rockset

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2016

2021

2013

2019

2013

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.0.59, April 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP REST

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Automatic sharding

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

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.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

simple rights management via user accounts

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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