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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. InfluxDB vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB 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.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

2013

2018

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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DoubleCloud: Fully managed ClickHouse alongside best-in-class managed open-source services to build analytics at scale.
Aiven for Clickhouse: Managed cloud data warehousing with high-speed analytics.
ClickHouse Cloud: Get the performance you love from open source ClickHouse in a serverless offering that takes care of the details so you can spend more time getting insight out of the fastest database on earth.

Implementation language

C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

SQL with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

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

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

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

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

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

Journaling Streams

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

ACID for single-table writes

yes

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

through memory mapped files

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.

simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

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