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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ClickHouse

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AClickHouse 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

    PrestoDB (or Presto)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APresto is an open source SQL query engine designed to run queries on data stored in Hadoop or in traditional databases. Teradata supported development of Presto followed the acquisition of Hadapt and Revelytix.N/A

    ScyllaDB

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AScyllaDB headquartered in Palo Alto offers Scylla, a NoSQL database alternative to Apache Cassandra available in Enterprise and Cloud DBaaS editions.N/A
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    ClickHousePrestoDB (or Presto)ScyllaDB
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    Pricing Offerings
    ClickHousePrestoDB (or Presto)ScyllaDB
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
    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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    User Ratings
    ClickHousePrestoDB (or Presto)ScyllaDB
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
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    8.2
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    Support Rating
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ClickHousePrestoDB (or Presto)ScyllaDB
    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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    Open Source
    Presto is for interactive simple queries, where Hive is for reliable processing. If you have a fact-dim join, presto is great..however for fact-fact joins presto is not the solution.. Presto is a great replacement for proprietary technology like Vertica
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    ScyllaDB
    Scylla is well suited for high-throughput scenarios where keyed data must be read or written with consistently low latency. It's less appropriate for use cases requiring relational queries, secondary indexes, or more structured data sets.
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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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    Open Source
    • Linking, embedding links and adding images is easy enough.
    • Once you have become familiar with the interface, Presto becomes very quick & easy to use (but, you have to practice & repeat to know what you are doing - it is not as intuitive as one would hope).
    • Organizing & design is fairly simple with click & drag parameters.
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    ScyllaDB
    • Low-latency reads
    • CQL has a familiar syntax
    • Parity with Cassandra
    • Practical features
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    Cons
    ClickHouse, Inc.
    • Avro data manipulation
    • Kafka consistency
    • DDL operations errors (by replica configuration)
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    Open Source
    • Presto was not designed for large fact fact joins. This is by design as presto does not leverage disk and used memory for processing which in turn makes it fast.. However, this is a tradeoff..in an ideal world, people would like to use one system for all their use cases, and presto should get exhaustive by solving this problem.
    • Resource allocation is not similar to YARN and presto has a priority queue based query resource allocation..so a query that takes long takes longer...this might be alleviated by giving some more control back to the user to define priority/override.
    • UDF Support is not available in presto. You will have to write your own functions..while this is good for performance, it comes at a huge overhead of building exclusively for presto and not being interoperable with other systems like Hive, SparkSQL etc.
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    ScyllaDB
    • Better documentation for best practices (e.g., how to effectively use connection pooling)
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    Usability
    ClickHouse, Inc.
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    Open Source
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    ScyllaDB
    Very easy-to-understand syntax--uses CQL (same as Cassandra), which has many similarities to standard SQL. There are some gotchas, however, that must be known during schema development.
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    Support Rating
    ClickHouse, Inc.
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    Open Source
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    ScyllaDB
    The Scylla cloud support team is incredibly responsive and proactive.
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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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    Open Source
    Presto is good for a templated design appeal. You cannot be too creative via this interface - but, the layout and options make the finalized visual product appealing to customers. The other design products I use are for different purposes and not really comparable to Presto.
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    ScyllaDB
    Scylla has a quick learning curve (same as Cassandra) compared to other proprietary solutions like BigTable. It supports higher throughput and lower latency that other NoSQL databases like MongoDB, which sacrifice those features for more flexibility and unique features.
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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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    Open Source
    • Presto has helped scale Uber's interactive data needs. We have migrated a lot out of proprietary tech like Vertica.
    • Presto has helped build data driven applications on its stack than maintain a separate online/offline stack.
    • Presto has helped us build data exploration tools by leveraging it's power of interactive and is immensely valuable for data scientists.
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    ScyllaDB
    • Addresses latency requirements of our platform
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