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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2

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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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.04
Rank	#332	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#200	Overall
	#32	Document stores

Score	160.32
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ibm.com/analytics/db2

Technical documentation

bangdb.com/developer

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

IBM

Initial release

2012

2016

1983

host version

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

BangDB is a converged NoSql database platform which natively integrated streaming,...
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Competitive advantages

Converged Platform to break silos for higher scale and performance BangDB is a novel...
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Typical application scenarios

IOT and time series data monitoring Devops, servers, network monitoring Real-Time...
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Key customers

Cisco, Accenture, Opera, Airpay, CtrlS, makemytrip, wine central, over 150 SaaS customers
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Market metrics

BangDB is one of the fastest databases in the marke with over 2X performance over...
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Licensing and pricing models

BangDB community and enterprise model. Details at https://bangdb.com/pricing/
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