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ByteHouse vs ClickHouse comparison

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Categories and Ranking

ByteHouse
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
AWS Marketplace (55th)
ClickHouse
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (3rd), Vector Databases (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

ByteHouse and ClickHouse aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. ByteHouse is designed for AWS Marketplace and holds a mindshare of 0.2%, down 0.3% compared to last year.
ClickHouse, on the other hand, focuses on Open Source Databases, holds 6.3% mindshare, up 5.7% since last year.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ByteHouse0.2%
Finimize Daily News API0.3%
Genesis VNA0.3%
Other99.2%
AWS Marketplace
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ClickHouse6.3%
MySQL12.7%
PostgreSQL11.8%
Other69.2%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

ParthasarathyT - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
Data platform has accelerated machine learning workflows and delivers faster, cheaper deployments
ByteHouse is an enterprise solution, so the company has to pay considerably to get it. However, if it were open source, the company could have a trial period and could proceed with confidence to purchase it. Additionally, ByteHouse could still offer a free trial for limited data, such as 1GB or 2GB of data. Regarding ByteHouse's AI capabilities, some tweaks are still needed. It is still in a growing state from what I have observed. When considering MLOps or an MLOps life cycle where data sets are stored in ByteHouse, there should be a tool that alerts us when these data sets have missing values, need cleanup, contain duplicate values, or have inconsistent data. Regarding ByteHouse's AI capabilities, I would rate the accuracy as below average, but it is still in a growing state. I would give it a six out of ten. My advice to others considering ByteHouse is that if you want scalability and your team is quite small, and you want a stable source where you can store your data sets and perform analysis, ByteHouse is a good option.
reviewer2785038 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
Data observability has enabled real‑time analytics and cost savings but needs smoother inserts and cleanup
ClickHouse could be improved concerning data insertion, especially given the high amount of data handled. Constant efforts are made to optimize the features on its own, but with merges and inserts, only a single insert query can be performed allowing for the input of only 100,000 rows per second. It would be beneficial to insert more data and have configurations that are less user-operated. Ideally, ClickHouse would optimize itself to handle these processes automatically, reducing the need to contact the ClickHouse support team for infrastructure optimization. Additionally, delays are experienced when trying to delete databases with corrupt data, taking too much time and causing major outages, which necessitate contacting multiple teams across continents for resolution. The community surrounding ClickHouse also seems limited, providing a reliance on documentation, and there is a scarcity of developers working with ClickHouse, which hinders growth. If ClickHouse were more user-friendly and technically feasible, it would likely see greater expansion in usage.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"ByteHouse has positively impacted my organization by making the machine learning life cycle considerably easier and faster."
"ClickHouse provides great query speeds because it is an OLAP database, so naturally, it provides higher speeds."
"ClickHouse is much faster than traditional databases like MySQL and MongoDB. Its column-row searching strategy makes it very efficient. With ClickHouse, we can manage multiple databases, automatically insert data from other databases and delete data as needed. It supports real-time query performance, allowing simultaneous data insertion and retrieval. ClickHouse has improved significantly over the past two years, adding more functions and queries, as well as top functionality."
"ClickHouse has positively impacted my organization, as there was an entire exercise done on which database we were supposed to use for solving our problems, and we found ClickHouse was the one performing the best, which is when we adopted it."
"Regarding performance, we tried multiple solutions when Kibana was failing, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and even MongoDB for log ingestion of huge volumes, but ClickHouse outperformed all databases we tested, leading us to choose it for further use cases."
"ClickHouse is open source with no vendor lock-in, providing excellent freedom to choose any vendor without restrictions."
"If you have a real-time basis, you should take a look at ClickHouse because it works on a vector database, and the querying is super fast compared to traditional databases."
"ClickHouse is a user-friendly solution that tries to be compatible with SQL standards."
"With ClickHouse, since data is stored in a columnar way, we get aggregation functions that are much faster than transactional databases, such as SQL Server, and the cost efficiency is also much reduced compared to Cosmos DB since we use it on-premises, the cost is nearly cut, which is very useful for us."
 

Cons

"Regarding ByteHouse's AI capabilities, I would rate the accuracy as below average, but it is still in a growing state."
"We would like to have fuzzy search capabilities in ClickHouse like we had with Kibana because there are scenarios where we cannot search keywords fuzzily in ClickHouse, whereas Elasticsearch allows that, and in such cases, Elasticsearch outperforms ClickHouse."
"One issue is that you need persistent volumes. Otherwise, if one system goes down, you lose data in that cluster."
"In terms of improvements, it's not designed for very frequent small writes, making it less scalable in write-intensive workloads, and it's not flourishing in transactional use cases or when ingesting streaming data, such as batching or buffering, which is something ClickHouse will improve."
"The open-source version of ClickHouse is not very scalable."
"Too many issues exist for beginners to set up ClickHouse. Many parameters must be configured, such as maximum scatter part settings that determine when writing to a table stops."
"ClickHouse could be improved with self-hosting capabilities and better documentation for how to host it at scale."
"The aggregation capability is a valuable feature. It's highly efficient, allowing us to review entire transaction histories and user activities in the market. We've tried MongoDB, Postgres, MariaDB, and BigQuery, but ClickHouse is the most cost-efficient solution for collecting data at high speeds with minimal cost. We even used ClickHouse Cloud for a month, and it proved to be a great setup, especially for startups looking to handle big data. For example, if there is a need for 2-4 terabytes of data and around 40 billion rows with reasonable computing speed and latency, ClickHouse is ideal. Regarding the real-time query performance of ClickHouse, when using an API server to query it, I achieved query results in less than twenty milliseconds in some of my experiments with one billion rows. However, it depends on the scenario since ClickHouse has limitations in handling mutations. Additionally, one of ClickHouse's strengths is its compression capability. Our experimental server has only four terabytes, and ClickHouse effectively compresses data, allowing us to store large amounts of data at high speed. This compression efficiency is a significant advantage of using ClickHouse."
"If you join our team, it should be easy for you to use ClickHouse, especially if you are a developer. However, you need to read the documentation and understand the problems you are trying to solve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"ClickHouse has an open-source version, which is free to use and has almost all the features."
"ClickHouse Cloud is not expensive compared to other databases, costing a few dollars per month while providing fast performance."
"We used the free, community version of ClickHouse."
"For pricing, if you use the self-hosted version, it would be free. Cloud services pricing would be an eight out of ten. I try to minimize costs but still have to monitor usage."
"If you have an in-house deployment on Kubernetes or something, it's going to be very cheap since you'll be managing everything."
"The tool is open-source."
"The tool is free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
31%
Outsourcing Company
25%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Insurance Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with ByteHouse?
Overall, I have had a positive experience with ByteHouse, but there are a few areas where it could be improved. First, the user experience and administrative workflows could be made more intuitive,...
What is your primary use case for ByteHouse?
Our primary use case for ByteHouse is large-scale analytics and reporting. We use it to store and query high volumes of operational and business data, generate reports, support dashboarding, and pe...
What advice do you have for others considering ByteHouse?
My advice would be to start by clearly understanding your analytics and data growth requirements. ByteHouse tends to provide the most value when you are dealing with large-scale analytical workload...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ClickHouse?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was such that the setup costs were just my own bandwidth, while licensing and pricing were done by other members of the team so it was abstract...
What needs improvement with ClickHouse?
ClickHouse can be improved on the documentation side, and there is one small constraint that is mentioned in ClickHouse documentation, which is a partition limit of ten thousand that we hit, so if ...
What is your primary use case for ClickHouse?
My main use case for ClickHouse is data ingestion and for its OLAP properties, as we had use cases where database locks were slowing us down and because ClickHouse does not have that, we chose to u...
 

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