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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. CouchDB vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged 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.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comcouchdb.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Microsoft
Initial release20122005198320122010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.3.3, December 202319.4.1, November 2021V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoyes infovia pluginsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
PHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'Transact SQL
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
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 modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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