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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. InfluxDB vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB

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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.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

manticoresearch.com

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Manticore Software

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2016

2013

2017

2004

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

6.0, February 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

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
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding via remote tables

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

in enterprise version only

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

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.

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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