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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Kdb

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionColumn-oriented Relational DBMS powering YandexHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.96
Rank#39  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score8.28
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websiteclickhouse.comkx.com
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docscode.kx.com
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current releasev23.7.4.5-stable, August 20233.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageC++q
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes
Secondary indexesyes, when using the MergeTree engineyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQLSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Scala info3rd party library
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesrights management via user accounts

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