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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Prometheus vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

A 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.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

prometheus.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2017

2023

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

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
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

by Federation

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

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 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. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access Control Lists

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