DBMS > Bangdb vs. Databend vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Databend vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

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.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.databend.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Databend Labs

Google

Kyligence, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2021

2017

2016

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.0.59, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes, with Cloud Functions

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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