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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. H2GIS vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.h2gis.org

quasar.ai

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

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

CNRS

quasardb

Initial release

2016

2013

2009

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

by using LevelDB

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

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.

yes

based on H2

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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