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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.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.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAxibase CorporationSachin Sinha, BangDBElasticFatCloudGoogle
Initial release20132012201020122017
Current release15585BangDB 2.0, October 20218.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VMWindowshosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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 infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes infovia applicationsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infovia applicationsyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoES-Hadoop ConnectoryesUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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