DBMS > chDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

IBM

DataJaguar, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2023

2012

1983

host version

2015

2021

Current release

12.1, October 2016

3.3 July 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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