DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Ehcache vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Ehcache vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.ehcache.org

www.graphengine.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

2009

2010

2016

2012

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.10.0, March 2022

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

.NET and C

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

.NET

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP 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

Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

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