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

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

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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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	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

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

Website

clickhouse.com

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

www.gridgain.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

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

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2007

1994

2011

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

3.4, August 2019

GridGain 8.5.1

4.4, October 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial, open source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Windows

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

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

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client 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

.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
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

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

none

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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