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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Kdb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

High performance Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.19
Rank	#39	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	8.94
Rank	#51	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	3.92
Rank	#94	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

kx.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

code.kx.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2013

Current release

v23.7.4.5-stable, August 2023

3.6, May 2018

7.10.2, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes, when using the MergeTree engine

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

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
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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