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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Spark SQL vs. Typesense vs. Valentina Server

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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.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#210	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

typesense.org/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2014

2015

1999

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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