DBMS > Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS

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Name

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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series 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	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.hawkular.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

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

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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