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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox 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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

objectbox.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

acquired by Google 2014

ObjectBox Limited

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2017

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 License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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