DBMS > ClickHouse vs. HugeGraph vs. Netezza vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. HugeGraph vs. Netezza vs. TerminusDB

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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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Baidu

IBM

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2018

2000

2018

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

0.9

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

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 journaling

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.

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

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