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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	6.63
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Google

Initial release

2023

2017

2001

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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