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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase vs. Kdb

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  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 assetsDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekx.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasecode.kx.com
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBIBMEmbarcaderoKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20122016201719842000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.0InterBase 2020, December 20193.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonC and C++Cq
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesyesyes
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.nononono infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesNo - written data is immutableyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
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 modeyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accounts
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BangdbBigchainDBIBM Db2 Event StoreInterbaseKdb
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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