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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. CouchDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgbangdb.comcouchdb.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bangdb.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablefirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release2012201220052012
Current release1.20.3, January 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20213.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL like support with command line toolnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptlimited functionality with using 'rules'
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, based on authentication and database rules

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