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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

blueflood.io

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rackspace

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

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

Sharding

none

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

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

optional

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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