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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. NuoDB vs. QuestDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasequestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docsdoc.nuodb.comquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20122012200220132014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20211.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsJava, SQLno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)Callbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesyes, on a single nodeACID infotunable commit protocolACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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 modeyesyes infoTemporary tableyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)yes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definableStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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