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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MarkLogic vs. TerminusDB vs. Valentina Server

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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.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.marklogic.com

terminusdb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.marklogic.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

MarkLogic Corp.

DataChemist Ltd.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2012

2001

2018

1999

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

11.0, December 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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ClickHouse Cloud: Get the performance you love from open source ClickHouse in a serverless offering that takes care of the details so you can spend more time getting insight out of the fastest database on earth.
DoubleCloud: Fully managed ClickHouse alongside best-in-class managed open-source services to build analytics at scale.
Aiven for Clickhouse: Managed cloud data warehousing with high-speed analytics.

Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

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

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

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 at the document and subdocument levels

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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