Comparison with scylladb

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Stefán Baxter

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Dec 17, 2019, 1:50:46 PM12/17/19
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Hi,

I'm a long term Clickhouse fan and a user.

Out of curiosity. Has anyone here come across a meaningful comparison between Clickhouse and Scylladb?

Scylladb is a c  implementation of Apache Cassandra and I think a comprehensive comparison might be very beneficial.

Thank you,
   - Stefán

Denis Zhuravlev

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Dec 17, 2019, 2:40:16 PM12/17/19
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But Scylladb is not an OLAP but the opposite -- K/V.

For example Scylladb unable to run select sum() from multibillion_table group by millions_key
And vice versa CH is super slow on  select value from multibillion_table where key=

Stefán Baxter

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Dec 17, 2019, 3:54:12 PM12/17/19
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This seems to contradict their claims.

I have not looked into this but I possibly will and if I do then I will report findings.

Stefán Baxter

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Dec 17, 2019, 3:59:03 PM12/17/19
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On Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 7:40:16 PM UTC, Denis Zhuravlev wrote:

Denis Zhuravlev

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Jan 6, 2020, 8:21:03 PM1/6/20
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ScyllaDBClickHouse
Servers83 x n2.xlarge.x86 for the database
24 x c2.medium.x86 for the worker nodes
1 Intel NUC
CPU cores83 x 28 cores (Intel Xeon Gold 5120) + 24 x 24 cores (AMD EPYC 7401p)
= 2900 cores
4 cores (Intel i7-6770HQ)
RAM83 x 384 GB + 24 x 64 GB
= 33408 GB
32 GB
Storage83 x 3.8TB NVMe SSD + 24 x 960GB SSD
= 338 TB NVMe SSD
1 TB NVMe SSD


8.6 seconds vs 542 seconds in ScyllaDB.



On Tuesday, 17 December 2019 14:50:46 UTC-4, Stefán Baxter wrote:

Stefán Baxter

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Jan 8, 2020, 4:43:20 AM1/8/20
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Thank you Denis
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