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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. NuoDB

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Name	ClickHouse  Xexclude from comparison	NuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex	NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 12.71 Rank #46   Overall #30   Relational DBMS	Score 0.96 Rank #179   Overall #86   Relational DBMS
Website	clickhouse.tech	nuodb.com
Technical documentation	clickhouse.tech/­docs	doc.nuodb.com
Developer	Clickhouse Inc.	NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release	2016	2013
Current release	v22.4.5.9-stable, May 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial limited edition free
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C++
Server operating systems	FreeBSD Linux macOS	hosted Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	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.	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Close to ANSI SQL	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	C# 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	.Net C C++ Go Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Java, SQL
Triggers	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes Managed transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID tunable commit protocol
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes MVCC
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	yes Temporary table
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users and roles	Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users
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