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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Realm vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Realm vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#48  Document stores
#36  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score13.43
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score799.81
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score7.05
Rank#49  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score3.68
Rank#74  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverrealm.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaselearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverrealm.io/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Timescale
Initial release20122012198920142017
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021SQL Server 2022, November 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoyesnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)Callbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
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 infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)yes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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