DBMS > ClickHouse vs. FeatureBase vs. GBase vs. Greenplum vs. Ignite

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. FeatureBase vs. GBase vs. Greenplum vs. Ignite

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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.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.featurebase.com

docs.greenplum.org

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Pivotal Software Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2017

2004

2005

2015

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2022, May 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

7.0.0, September 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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DoubleCloud: Fully managed ClickHouse alongside best-in-class managed open-source services to build analytics at scale.
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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL queries

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

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
Python

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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.

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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