DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. searchxml vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. searchxml vs. TerarkDB

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

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	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.kinetica.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.kinetica.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Spotify

Kinetica

informationpartners gmbh

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2014

2012

2015

2016

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

7.1, August 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

C++ API
Java 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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

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

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.

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

multiple readers, single writer

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

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.

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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