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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Kinetica vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

GPU-accelerated database for real-time analysis of large and streaming datasets

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	7.66
Rank	#54	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#194	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#295	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

clickhouse.tech

www.kinetica.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.tech/docs

www.kinetica.com/docs

terminusdb.com/docs

Developer

Yandex LLC

Kinetica

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

2018

Current release

v20.11.3.3-stable, November 2020

6.0

4.0, December 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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
Scala

3rd party library

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Role-based access control

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