DBMS > ClickHouse vs. H2 vs. HugeGraph vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. H2 vs. HugeGraph vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.h2database.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Baidu

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2005

2018

2015

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

0.9

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X

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

also supports composite index and range index

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

Groovy
Java
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

links between datasets can be stored

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

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