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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. ClickHouse vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#359	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	14.97
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	18.58
Rank	#38	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

blueflood.io

clickhouse.tech

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

github.com/rackerlabs/blueflood/wiki

clickhouse.tech/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Rackspace

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2013

2016

2012

Current release

v23.4.1.1943-stable, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

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, when using the MergeTree engine

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

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
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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