Data formats

Data Formats for chDB

When it comes to data formats, chDB is 100% feature compatible with ClickHouse.

Input formats are used to parse the data provided to INSERT and SELECT from a file-backed table such as File, URL or S3. Output formats are used to arrange the results of a SELECT, and to perform INSERTs into a file-backed table. As well as the data formats that ClickHouse supports, chDB also supports:

• ArrowTable as an output format, the type is Python pyarrow.Table
• DataFrame as an input and output format, the type is Python pandas.DataFrame. For examples, see test_joindf.py
• Debug as ab output (as an alias of CSV), but with enabled debug verbose output from ClickHouse.

The supported data formats from ClickHouse are:

Format	Input	Output
TabSeparated	✔	✔
TabSeparatedRaw	✔	✔
TabSeparatedWithNames	✔	✔
TabSeparatedWithNamesAndTypes	✔	✔
TabSeparatedRawWithNames	✔	✔
TabSeparatedRawWithNamesAndTypes	✔	✔
Template	✔	✔
TemplateIgnoreSpaces	✔	✗
CSV	✔	✔
CSVWithNames	✔	✔
CSVWithNamesAndTypes	✔	✔
CustomSeparated	✔	✔
CustomSeparatedWithNames	✔	✔
CustomSeparatedWithNamesAndTypes	✔	✔
SQLInsert	✗	✔
Values	✔	✔
Vertical	✗	✔
JSON	✔	✔
JSONAsString	✔	✗
JSONAsObject	✔	✗
JSONStrings	✔	✔
JSONColumns	✔	✔
JSONColumnsWithMetadata	✔	✔
JSONCompact	✔	✔
JSONCompactStrings	✗	✔
JSONCompactColumns	✔	✔
JSONEachRow	✔	✔
PrettyJSONEachRow	✗	✔
JSONEachRowWithProgress	✗	✔
JSONStringsEachRow	✔	✔
JSONStringsEachRowWithProgress	✗	✔
JSONCompactEachRow	✔	✔
JSONCompactEachRowWithNames	✔	✔
JSONCompactEachRowWithNamesAndTypes	✔	✔
JSONCompactEachRowWithProgress	✗	✔
JSONCompactStringsEachRow	✔	✔
JSONCompactStringsEachRowWithNames	✔	✔
JSONCompactStringsEachRowWithNamesAndTypes	✔	✔
JSONCompactStringsEachRowWithProgress	✗	✔
JSONObjectEachRow	✔	✔
BSONEachRow	✔	✔
TSKV	✔	✔
Pretty	✗	✔
PrettyNoEscapes	✗	✔
PrettyMonoBlock	✗	✔
PrettyNoEscapesMonoBlock	✗	✔
PrettyCompact	✗	✔
PrettyCompactNoEscapes	✗	✔
PrettyCompactMonoBlock	✗	✔
PrettyCompactNoEscapesMonoBlock	✗	✔
PrettySpace	✗	✔
PrettySpaceNoEscapes	✗	✔
PrettySpaceMonoBlock	✗	✔
PrettySpaceNoEscapesMonoBlock	✗	✔
Prometheus	✗	✔
Protobuf	✔	✔
ProtobufSingle	✔	✔
ProtobufList	✔	✔
Avro	✔	✔
AvroConfluent	✔	✗
Parquet	✔	✔
ParquetMetadata	✔	✗
Arrow	✔	✔
ArrowStream	✔	✔
ORC	✔	✔
One	✔	✗
Npy	✔	✔
RowBinary	✔	✔
RowBinaryWithNames	✔	✔
RowBinaryWithNamesAndTypes	✔	✔
RowBinaryWithDefaults	✔	✗
Native	✔	✔
Null	✗	✔
XML	✗	✔
CapnProto	✔	✔
LineAsString	✔	✔
Regexp	✔	✗
RawBLOB	✔	✔
MsgPack	✔	✔
MySQLDump	✔	✗
DWARF	✔	✗
Markdown	✗	✔
Form	✔	✗

For further information and examples, see ClickHouse formats for input and output data.