DBMS > AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

clickhouse.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

google.github.io/lovefield

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

clickhouse.com/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

Initial release

2014

2016

2017

2014

2017

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

JavaScript

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Role-based access control

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