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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. SwayDB

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Name

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Description

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

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

geospock.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

acquired by Google 2014

GeoSpock

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2018

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, Javascript

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomic execution of operations

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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