DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. HyperSQL vs. TerarkDB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. HyperSQL vs. TerarkDB vs. Trino

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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

hsqldb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

trino.io

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.datastax.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

DataStax

ByteDance, originally Terark

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2011

2001

2016

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

6.8, April 2020

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Starburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.

Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

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

yes

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

depending on connected data-source

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

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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