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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

Open-source TimeSeries DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.96
Rank	#39	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	8.34
Rank	#52	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

Current release

v23.7.4.5-stable, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes, when using the MergeTree engine

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

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