DBMS > ClickHouse vs. GridGain vs. Kinetica vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. GridGain vs. Kinetica vs. SAP IQ

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.gridgain.com

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Kinetica

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2007

2012

1994

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

7.1, August 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial, open source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

C, C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

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)

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

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.

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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