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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. RDF4J

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphAn embedded key-value store for Go.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitebangdb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iordf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleChris DavisSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20122013201720062004
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++GoPythonJava
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesNumeric data onlyyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
GoGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)noAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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