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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Lovefield vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Event Store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

google.github.io/lovefield

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Event Store Limited

Google

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

21.2, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes, with Cloud Functions

Using read-only observers

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access 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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