DBMS > ClickHouse vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase

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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.

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.gridgain.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.kingbase.com.cn

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2016

2007

2014

2010

1999

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Erlang

C and Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

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

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

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.

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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