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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Cachelot.io vs. CrateDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Cachelot.io vs. CrateDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Spark SQL

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphIn-memory caching systemDistributed Database based on LuceneCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comcachelot.iocratedb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasespark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcratedb.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBCrateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20122015201320122014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageC, C++C++JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions (Javascript)limited functionality with using 'rules'no
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglynoneEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellnoyesyesyes
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 modenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)norights management via user accountsyes, based on authentication and database rulesno
More information provided by the system vendor
BangdbCachelot.ioCrateDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseSpark SQL
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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