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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. Heroic vs. Kdb

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphAn embedded key-value store for Go.dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitebangdb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroickx.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasespotify.github.io/­heroiccode.kx.com
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBAsthon TateSpotifyKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20122013197920142000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021dBASE 2019, 20193.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++GoJavaq
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnononoSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
GodBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nononoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)nonenoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
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 modenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)noAccess rights for users and rolesrights management via user accounts
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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