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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.34
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websiteclickhouse.comwww.exasol.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docswww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.ExasolMicrosoft
Initial release2016200020132012
Current releasev24.4.1.2088-stable, May 20242.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++Go
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
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Rust
Scala info3rd party library
Java
Lua
Python
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.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeskey based and customShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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-standardsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures
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ClickHouseEXASOLInfluxDBMicrosoft Azure Table Storage
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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