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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. Faircom DB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. PostgreSQL

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	644.36
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.bigchaindb.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

FairCom Corporation

IBM

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2012

2016

1979

2014

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V13, July 2024

16.4, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Python

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

hosted

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

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

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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