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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Heroic

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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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

bangdb.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Altibase

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

Spotify

Initial release

1999

2012

2008

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes, details here

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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