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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Immudb vs. InfluxDB vs. KairosDB

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score15.55
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websiteclickhouse.comwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.immudb.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.Community supported by Red HatCodenotary
Initial release20162014202020132013
Current releasev24.4.1.2088-stable, May 20241.2.3, April 20222.7.6, April 20241.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaGoGoJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)noSQL-like syntaxSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
HTTP RESTgRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
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
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeskey based and customSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
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.nosimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access control
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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