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System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	14.97
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	18.58
Rank	#38	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#330	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

clickhouse.tech

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

clickhouse.tech/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

Current release

v23.4.1.1943-stable, April 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

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++

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data 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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Erlang

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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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