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DBMS > Badger vs. Bangdb vs. IBM Db2 vs. Informix vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Bangdb vs. IBM Db2 vs. Informix vs. TerminusDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.ibm.com/­products/­informixterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.bangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
terminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDGraph LabsSachin Sinha, BangDBIBMIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201720121983 infohost version19842018
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202112.1, October 201614.10.FC5, November 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3commercial infofree version is availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++C and C++C, C++ and JavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyes
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 indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolyesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesyes
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsRole-based access control

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