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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. CouchDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Linter vs. SiteWhere

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.RDBMS for high security requirementsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comcouchdb.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaselinter.rugithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasesitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014relex.ruSiteWhere
Initial release20122005201219902010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++ErlangC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
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, geospatialyes infovia viewsyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP REST
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
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptlimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesCallbacks 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 2.0noneSharding infobased on HBase
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 replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesACIDno
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 modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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