DBMS > ClickHouse vs. etcd vs. GridGain vs. STSdb vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. etcd vs. GridGain vs. STSdb vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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.

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#165	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.gridgain.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

STS Soft SC

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2016

2007

2011

2018

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

3.4, August 2019

GridGain 8.5.1

4.0.8, September 2015

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial, open source

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

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

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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)

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

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

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

.NET Client API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

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
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

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.

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes (replicated cache)

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

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