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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MaxDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

maxdb.sap.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

firebase.google.com/docs/database

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Elastic

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2010

2012

1984

2000

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

8.6, January 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

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

via file-system locks

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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