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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. GridDB vs. Kinetica vs. TerarkDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitebangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.comgriddb.netwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.griddb.netdocs.kinetica.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBToshiba CorporationKineticaByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122016201320122016
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.1, August 20227.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonC++C, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at container levelnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)yesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno
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BangdbBigchainDBGridDBKineticaTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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