DBMS > ClickHouse vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.risingwave.com/database

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

RisingWave Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

2022

2014

2017

2014

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

1.2, September 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

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

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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 and Roles

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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