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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kdb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  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 casesHigh performance Time Series DBMSWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
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
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storekx.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storecode.kx.comdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBIBMKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release2012201620172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20031994
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.03.6, May 201818.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonC and C++qC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesyesno
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.nononoyesyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (q)yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes infowith viewsyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesNo - written data is immutableyes
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-standardrights management via user accountsno
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BangdbBigchainDBIBM Db2 Event StoreKdbOracle Berkeley DB
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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