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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Spatial extension of H2

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.graphengine.io

www.h2gis.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

CNRS

Spotify

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2013

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

.NET

Data scheme

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java

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

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

yes

based on H2

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

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