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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BoltDB vs. Couchbase vs. Datastax Enterprise

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Name

Description

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

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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Wide column store

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

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Website

bangdb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.couchbase.com

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.couchbase.com

docs.datastax.com

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Couchbase, Inc.

DataStax

Initial release

2012

2013

2011

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

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

6.8, April 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via the TAP protocol

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

none

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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.

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Licensing and pricing models

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