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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Spatial extension of H2

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#334	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

blueflood.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2gis.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rackspace

Google

acquired by Google 2014

CNRS

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

2013

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

based on H2

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