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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. H2 vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.98
Rank	#39	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	9.05
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#376	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.h2database.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Cesbit

Initial release

2016

2005

2017

Current release

v23.7.4.5-stable, August 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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, when using the MergeTree engine

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

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
Scala

3rd party library

Java

C
C++
Go
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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