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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle

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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.

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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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	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.hawkular.org

memgraph.com

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

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

memgraph.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Social network pages

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Community supported by Red Hat

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

1980

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

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

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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