DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HugeGraph vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HugeGraph vs. TerarkDB

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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.

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.datastax.com

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

DataStax

Google

Baidu

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2011

2008

2018

2016

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

6.8, April 2020

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

C++ API
Java API

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#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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.

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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

Users, roles and permissions

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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