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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. H2GIS vs. Impala

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Name

Description

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

Spatial extension of H2

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	15.19
Rank	#39	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#355	Overall
	#5	Spatial DBMS

Score	19.60
Rank	#36	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.h2gis.org

www.cloudera.com/products/open-source/apache-hadoop/impala.html

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/impala.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

CNRS

Cloudera

Initial release

2016

2013

Current release

v23.7.4.5-stable, August 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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, when using the MergeTree engine

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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