ClickHouse Alternatives

ClickHouse is described as 'Open source column-oriented database management system capable of real time generation of analytical data reports using SQL queries' and is an app. There are eight alternatives to ClickHouse for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, Mac, Windows and Web-based apps. The best ClickHouse alternative is Marple DB. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try DuckDB or Apache Pinot. Other great apps like ClickHouse are StarRocks, PondPilot, Sybase IQ and Druid.

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  1. Marple DB icon
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    Marple DB is a high-performance database designed for processing and standardising time series data from measurement files.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Marple DB is the most popular Web-based, SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to ClickHouse.

    • Marple DB is the most popular commercial alternative to ClickHouse.

    • Marple DB is Paid and ProprietaryClickHouse is Freemium and Open Source
  2. DuckDB icon
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    There are many database management systems (DBMS) out there. But there is no one-size-fits all database system. All take different trade-offs to better adjust to specific use cases. DuckDB is no different.

    8 DuckDB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • DuckDB is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to ClickHouse.

    • DuckDB is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ClickHouse.

    • DuckDB is Free and Open SourceClickHouse is Freemium and Open Source
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    Apache Pinot is a real-time distributed OLAP datastore, built to deliver scalable real-time analytics with low latency. It can ingest from batch data sources (such as Hadoop HDFS, Amazon S3, Azure ADLS, Google Cloud Storage) as well as stream data sources (such as Apache Kafka).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. StarRocks icon
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    StarRocks, a Linux Foundation project, is a next-generation sub-second MPP OLAP database for full analytics scenarios, including multi-dimensional analytics, real-time analytics, and ad-hoc queries. InfoWorld’s 2023 BOSSIE Award for best open source software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. PondPilot icon
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    A blazing-fast, lightweight, 100% client-side AI-enabled data exploration tool that helps you analyze local & remote data with zero setup. Powered by DuckDB-Wasm and integrated AI assistance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  6. Sybase IQ icon
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    SAP Sybase IQ, a highly optimized analytics server software which provides business intelligence through column-based oriented architecture tool for data warehousing and mining. Our Sybase analytic database management software server product provides faster results for...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Druid icon
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    Druid is an open-source analytics data store designed for business intelligence (OLAP) queries on event data. Druid provides low latency (real-time) data ingestion, flexible data exploration, and fast data aggregation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    MatrixOne is a hyper-converged cloud and edge native DBMS that supports transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads with a simplified and distributed database engine, across multiple data centers, clouds, edges and other infrastructures.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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