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

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Cloud 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.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.ibm.com/products/db2

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

IBM

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2012

2017

1983

host version

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes, with Cloud Functions

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

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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