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ClickHouse vs Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

ClickHouse
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (3rd), Vector Databases (8th)
Pulse Elasticsearch and Ope...
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (15th)
 

Mindshare comparison

ClickHouse and Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. ClickHouse is designed for Open Source Databases and holds a mindshare of 6.3%, up 5.7% compared to last year.
Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, on the other hand, focuses on Indexing and Search, holds 1.6% mindshare.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ClickHouse6.3%
MySQL12.7%
PostgreSQL11.8%
Other69.2%
Open Source Databases
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch1.6%
Elastic Search9.4%
OpenText Knowledge Discovery (IDOL)6.4%
Other82.6%
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Rafayel Agamyan - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Search performance has transformed customer document access and continues to improve satisfaction
Customer satisfaction has significantly improved since switching to Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch from old legacy services, as many insights from customers indicate that latency has changed dramatically and the speed is significantly better now. For others looking into using Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, it is definitely recommended to give it a try, especially if old legacy systems that are slow are currently being used. Lately, OpenSearch has come up with a new version that greatly enhances speed, so trying it is encouraged and it will be loved. A review rating of 9 reflects the overall satisfaction with Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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 Cloud saves a lot of time for our DevOps engineers since there isn't much deployment involved and everything is served directly, leading to increased efficiency and productivity."
"ClickHouse provides responses within a few seconds, typically two to three seconds, which is impressive."
"ClickHouse is very easy to use; one of the good features is that it has joins, which were not present in Druid, and Druid was quite expensive, especially with our applications at Sam's Club utilizing ClickHouse very quickly."
"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."
"ClickHouse has reduced our storage cost and improved our 99th percentile latency by 40%."
"The tool's most valuable feature is a database. It supports portal APIs and offers good flexibility."
"ClickHouse is open source with no vendor lock-in, providing excellent freedom to choose any vendor without restrictions."
"It is quite easy, and I think it was really great the way they offered the services."
"Customer satisfaction has significantly improved since switching to Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch from old legacy services, as many insights from customers indicate that latency has changed dramatically and the speed is significantly better now."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"There are some areas where ClickHouse could improve. Specifically, we encountered incompatibilities with its SQL syntax when migrating queries from MySQL or SQL to ClickHouse. This difference in details made it challenging to figure out the exact issues. Additionally, we faced difficulties due to the lack of a proper Django driver for ClickHouse, unlike MySQL, which Django supports out of the box."
"ClickHouse could be improved further in several areas."
"ClickHouse can be improved, and the main challenge I see is its operational complexity."
"ClickHouse has its own concept of database triggers and doesn't support traditional database triggers."
"Initially, I faced challenges integrating ClickHouse, particularly with inserting data from ActiveMQ, which caused duplicates. However, after adjusting the ClickHouse settings, the issue was resolved and there were no more duplicates."
"I think the way they support the ingesting service for Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch is not really great."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"ClickHouse has an open-source version, which is free to use and has almost all the features."
"The tool is open-source."
"The tool is free."
"ClickHouse Cloud is not expensive compared to other databases, costing a few dollars per month while providing fast performance."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
28%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Healthcare Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise8
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Questions from the Community

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...
What is your primary use case for Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch?
My primary use case is powering up the search in the product.
What advice do you have for others considering Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch?
I have not used the SQL query support feature. I did assess the RESTful API support. I have not utilized Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch machine learning features, as there was no use case for m...
What needs improvement with Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch?
I think the way they support the ingesting service for Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch is not really great. If I got to attach a few more records, they don't support it. It's all rewrite every t...
 

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