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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL vs. STSdb vs. XTDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used open source RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

clickhouse.com

www.mysql.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

STS Soft SC

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2009

1995

2011

2019

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

9.0.0, July 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

HTTP REST
JDBC

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
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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