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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. QuestDB vs. Tarantool

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionColumn-oriented Relational DBMS powering YandexA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.24
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#146  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#152  Overall
#27  Key-value stores
Websiteclickhouse.techquestdb.iowww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationclickhouse.tech/­docsquestdb.io/­docs/­introductionwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.QuestDB LimitedVK
Initial release201620142008
Current releasev23.1.3.5-stable, February 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes, when using the MergeTree enginenoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQLSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
C++
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
Scala info3rd party library
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Hash sharding based on virtual buckets
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable consistency for N replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes, with SQL
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID for single-table writesACID, read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles
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ClickHouseQuestDBTarantool
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesReal-time data ingestion and istant SQL queries for time series High performance...
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Typical application scenariosApplication metrics Financial market data and algo trading DevOps monitoring Real-time...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0.
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