DBMS > ClickHouse vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	13.57
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.17
Rank	#194	Overall
	#8	RDF stores

Score	117.26
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.tech

rdf4j.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.tech/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2004

2014

Current release

v22.8.5.29-lts, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
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
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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