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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. Couchbase vs. mSQL vs. Solr

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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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

bangdb.com

blueflood.io

www.couchbase.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.couchbase.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rackspace

Couchbase, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2013

2011

1994

2006

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

4.4, October 2021

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Java plugins

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

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

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding

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

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

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

selectable on a per-operation basis

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

yes

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