DBMS > Bangdb vs. BigObject vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BigObject vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

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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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

bigobject.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.bigobject.io

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

BigObject, Inc.

InterSystems

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2018

2010

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2023.3, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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