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DBMS > ClickHouse vs. GridGain vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. GridGain vs. Qdrant

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 IgniteA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.73
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#151  Overall
#1  Columnar
#25  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#68  Relational DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#106  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websiteclickhouse.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.GridGain Systems, Inc.Qdrant
Initial release201620072021
Current releasev24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial, open sourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLRust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
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
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
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
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeskey based and customShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.yes (replicated cache)Collection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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
Key-based authentication

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