DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. RDFox

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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.

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.

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.50
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	13.43
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

clickhouse.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

manticoresearch.com

milvus.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/database

manual.manticoresearch.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Manticore Software

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2019

2017

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

6.0, February 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

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-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

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

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

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
JavaScript
Objective-C

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

replication via a shared file system

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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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. 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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Roles, resources, and access types

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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