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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. OushuDB vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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.A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score15.55
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteclickhouse.comwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.snowflake.comsqream.com
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docswww.oushu.com/­documentationdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.OushuRisingWave LabsSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release2016202220142017
Current releasev24.4.1.2088-stable, May 20244.0.1, August 20201.2, September 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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  • DoubleCloud: Fully managed ClickHouse alongside best-in-class managed open-source services to build analytics at scale.
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Implementation languageC++RustC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)Full-featured ANSI SQL supportyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
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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
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
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C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesUDFs in Python or Javauser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeskey based and customyesyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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.Kerberos, SSL and role based accessUsers and RolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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