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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NebulaGraph vs. STSdb

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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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	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

acquired by Google 2014

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Vesoft Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2010

2019

2011

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

using RocksDB

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 database

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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