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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. ClickHouse vs. H2GIS vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Spatial extension of H2

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

clickhouse.com

www.h2gis.org

sphinxsearch.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

clickhouse.com/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Clickhouse Inc.

CNRS

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2017

2016

2013

2001

2009

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

yes

based on H2

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