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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. HBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

hbase.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

2008

2013

2014

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
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
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Depending on used storage engine

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.

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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