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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Graphite vs. Lovefield

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionColumn-oriented Relational DBMS powering YandexData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score15.19
Rank#39  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score5.45
Rank#77  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#277  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Websiteclickhouse.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.Chris DavisGoogle
Initial release201620062014
Current releasev23.7.4.5-stable, August 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++PythonJavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes, when using the MergeTree enginenoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Scala info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnono

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