ClickHouse vs. InterSystems IRIS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ClickHouse
Score 7.5 out of 10
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ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database system enabling real-time analytical reports using SQL queries. With linear scalability, it handles trillions of rows and petabytes of data. ClickHouse Cloud offers a scalable serverless solution for real-time analytics.N/A
InterSystems IRIS
Score 7.8 out of 10
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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform that includes a multi-model transactional data management engine, an application development platform, and interoperability engine, and an open analytics platform. It is is the next generation of InterSystems' data management software. It includes…N/A
Pricing
ClickHouseInterSystems IRIS
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Pricing Offerings
ClickHouseInterSystems IRIS
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsPay for what is used: It automatically scales up and down compute resources based on the user's workload It scales storage and compute separately It automatically scales unused resources down to zero so that users don’t pay for idle services
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ClickHouseInterSystems IRIS
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InterSystems IRIS
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Score 7.8 out of 10
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InterSystems IRIS
InterSystems IRIS
Score 7.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
ClickHouseInterSystems IRIS
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
7.4
(44 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ClickHouseInterSystems IRIS
Likelihood to Recommend
ClickHouse, Inc.
The most important thing when using ClickHouse is to be clear that the scenarios in which you want to use it really are the right ones. Many users think that when a database is very fast for a specific use case, it can be extrapolated to other contexts (most of the time different) in which a previous analysis has not been carried out.
ClickHouse is an analytical database, as such, it should be used for such purposes, where the information is stored correctly, the data volumes are really large and the queries to be performed are not the typical traditional queries on several columns with multiple aggregations. ClickHouse is not the solution for this.
On the other hand, if your case is not one of the above, it is quite possible that ClickHouse can help you. Where ClickHouse shines is when you are looking for aggregation over a particular column in large volumes of data.
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InterSystems
Intersystems IRIS is a really great tool for Interoperability. It has so many capabilities out of the box and then such a great developer community on top of that, that there are really no limits to what you can do in terms of data manipulation and translation. Personally I find it to be a great tool if you are looking for Interoperability software.
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Pros
ClickHouse, Inc.
  • Their MergeTree table engine provide impressive performance for data insert in bulk
  • Not only data insert but also the way MergeTree engine uses Primary Keys to sort the data and perform data skipping based on the granules its also their secret for ridiculous fast queries
  • Data compression its also great
  • They provide especial table engines that allow you to read data directly from other sources like S3
  • Since its written with C++ you have very granular data types and especial ones like enum, LowCardinality and etc, they save you a lot of storage since are stored as integer values
  • ClickHouse functions besides the ones that respect ANSI Standards are also awesome and useful
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InterSystems
  • Connecting with mutliple vendor platforms and systems allowing us to consume and provide data as needed.
  • Allowed us to implement our own RESTful api engine to server data to our internal applications.
  • Setting up their recommendations for high availability allow us to perform server maintenance with minimal down time to our users.
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Cons
ClickHouse, Inc.
  • Avro data manipulation
  • Kafka consistency
  • DDL operations errors (by replica configuration)
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InterSystems
  • Enhanced documentation, more comprehensive and user-friendly documentation, including detailed tutorials and examples
  • Improving compatibility and integrations with others programming languages
  • Introducing tools and techniques to optimize the performance of ObjectScript applications, such as profiling tools, performance monitoring utilities, and code optimization guidelines
  • A better compatibility with Python libraries
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Usability
ClickHouse, Inc.
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InterSystems
The interface is very intuitive, the documentation is very good so it is not complicated to operate.
The security is complex, but you can create a special role to access and the user ONLY can operate with the part that it allows.
Also, you can examine the data very quick with the SQL Browser integrated.
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Support Rating
ClickHouse, Inc.
No answers on this topic
InterSystems
The InterSystems WRC has always been helpful and responsive. The folks I have spoken with are always understanding of our needs and questions and regardless of if the question is simple or complex we are always met with the same professionalism and helpfulness every time. I have no hesitations contacting InterSystems for help!
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Implementation Rating
ClickHouse, Inc.
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InterSystems
Will done based on a proper planning, so this will makes execution more easier and better.
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Alternatives Considered
ClickHouse, Inc.
ClickHouse outperforms, especially in costs, since its compression/indexing engines are so smart, and even with very low computing power, you can already perform huge analyses of the data.
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InterSystems
We are using InterSystems IRIS [especially] for database operations as the query performance is really good for [a large] amount of customer data. You can easily integrate for any application like web, desktop, and many more. It also provides BI functionality which is also very easy to implement using InterSystems IRIS[.]
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Return on Investment
ClickHouse, Inc.
  • Queries that used to take more than 2 minutes now take less than 1 second
  • Possibility to analyze use cases in real time (before was impossible)
  • The applications are more complete and the users decisions are better
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InterSystems
  • Very Fast and scalable software to deal with big data flow, safe and robust.
  • The studio IDE is quite old fashion and lacks a few facilities
  • amazing for complex data consumption, its milyi-model capability wich allows multiple different models for a single set of codes.
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