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

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 ElasticSearchA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasespotify.github.io/­heroicquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBAsthon TateSpotifyQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20122013197920142014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021dBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++GoJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnononoSQL with time-series extensions
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 REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
GodBase proprietary IDEC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nononono
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 (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)nonenoneyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
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 DBMSnoACID for single-table writes
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 infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)noAccess rights for users and roles
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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