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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. JaguarDB vs. KairosDB

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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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

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	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.datomic.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rackspace

Cognitect

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

2015

2013

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.0.7075, December 2023

3.3 July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

By using transaction functions

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

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