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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph vs. Weaviate

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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

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

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#334	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

blueflood.io

www.h2gis.org

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

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rackspace

CNRS

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2013

2009

2019

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

TinkerPop 3

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

Groovy
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

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

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

none

yes

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

optional

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

based on H2

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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