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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Elasticsearch vs. Hive

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Name

Description

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	16.96
Rank	#39	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	137.75
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	69.41
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

hive.apache.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Elastic

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2016

2010

2012

Current release

v23.7.4.5-stable, August 2023

8.6, January 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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, when using the MergeTree engine

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

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
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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