DBMS > ClickHouse vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

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.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

clickhouse.com

www.featurebase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.featurebase.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Manticore Software

Initial release

2016

2017

2012

2017

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

2022, May 2022

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL queries

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

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
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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