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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of H2

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Altibase

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rackspace

CNRS

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1999

2012

2013

2018

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

ANSI SQL-92

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on H2

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

based on H2

Role-based access control

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