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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. VoltDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SpotifyMicrosoftVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20122012201420162010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnonoyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noTransact SQLJava
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)Callbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
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 modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)yes, based on authentication and database rulesyesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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