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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. Cassandra vs. H2GIS vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Spatial extension of H2

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

CNRS

Initial release

2012

2013

2008

2013

2008

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.1.3, July 2023

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

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

based on Cassandra

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

based on H2

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

yes, write ahead logging

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

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

based on H2

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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