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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. CouchDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InfluxDB vs. KairosDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  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 Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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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
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comcouchdb.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablefirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogle
Initial release20122005201720132013
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.3.3, December 20232.7.6, April 20241.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++ErlangGoJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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 viewsyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
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
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyes, with Cloud Functionsnono
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 2.0ShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesnono
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 modenoyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.simple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access control
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