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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Cubrid vs. Firebird vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Cubrid vs. Firebird vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseCloud 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.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.firebirdsql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcubrid.org/­manualswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationFirebird FoundationGoogleHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release201220082000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172016
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.0, January 20215.0.0, January 20245.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++C, C++, JavaC and C++C++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresPSQLyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonenoneShardingSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyesno
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 modenoyes
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 roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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