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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Teradata 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.

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	18.61
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	34.04
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

www.teradata.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.teradata.com

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Teradata

Yandex

Initial release

2016

1984

2023

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted
Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

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

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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