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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Citus vs. Firebird vs. Hive vs. PostGIS

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.citusdata.comwww.firebirdsql.orghive.apache.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.citusdata.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release201220102000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20122005
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20218.1, December 20185.0.0, January 20243.1.3, April 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++CC and C++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.PSQLyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
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 modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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