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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. H2GIS vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Spatial extension of H2

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.h2gis.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

CNRS

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2023

2013

2015

2014

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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, 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

yes

based on H2

rights management via user accounts

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

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