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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBM
Initial release2012201720101983 infohost version
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202112.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialcommercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++ErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
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)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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