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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BigObject vs. H2GIS vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Spatial extension of H2

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.bigobject.io

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

BigObject, Inc.

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2012

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

JavaScript

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

based on H2

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

optional

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

based on H2

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