DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb

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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.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.gridgain.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

GridGain Systems, Inc.

IBM

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2008

2007

2017

2011

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

2.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language (GQL)

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

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client 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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

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

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes (replicated cache)

Active-active shard replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared 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.

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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