DBMS > ClickHouse vs. EXASOL vs. GridDB vs. HarperDB vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. EXASOL vs. GridDB vs. HarperDB vs. InfluxDB

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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.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.griddb.net

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Exasol

Toshiba Corporation

HarperDB

Initial release

2016

2000

2013

2017

2013

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.1, August 2022

3.1, August 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Node.js

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

JSON data types

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

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

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

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

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

simple rights management via user accounts

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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