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

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NameClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionColumn-oriented Relational DBMS powering YandexCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.97
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score18.58
Rank#38  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.12
Rank#218  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteclickhouse.techfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationclickhouse.tech/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release201620122020
Current releasev23.4.1.1943-stable, April 20232.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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CelerData Cloud – Realtime-analytics delivered at the push of a button
Implementation languageC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes, when using the MergeTree engineyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Scala info3rd party library
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functions
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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ClickHouseFirebase Realtime DatabaseStarRocks
Specific characteristicsStarRocks is an open-source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables...
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Competitive advantagesOne of the challenges of data lakehouse is to provide fast and interactive query...
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Typical application scenariosReal-time analytics Fraud detection System monitoring analytics User facing analytics...
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Key customersTrip.com Yoozoo Zepp health Airbnb Lenovo Tencent
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Market metrics4.4k stars, 223 contributors on GitHub 971 members on Slack *a s of April 2023:
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache-2.0 license Pay-as-you-go BYOC cloud service by CelerData
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