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DBMS > Bangdb vs. EDB Postgres vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. EDB Postgres vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.enterprisedb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBEnterpriseDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Sybase, SAPSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20122005201219931992
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202114, December 202117, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.limited functionality with using 'rules'yesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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 infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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