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DBMS > Bangdb vs. CouchDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. CouchDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
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.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comcouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerFoundationDBEmbarcadero
Initial release20122005201319842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.3.3, December 20236.2.28, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ErlangC++CC
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnono infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptin SQL-layer onlyyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnoyesyes
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 2.0Shardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesInterbase Change Views
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 ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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 modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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