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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Cassandra vs. Galaxybase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiriDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Spatial DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comcassandra.apache.orggalaxybase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
siridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.heavy.aidocs.siridb.com
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司HEAVY.AI, Inc.Cesbit
Initial release20122008201720162017
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20214.1.3, July 2023Nov 20, November 20215.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC and JavaC++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined procedures and functionsnono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnono
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 modenoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per objectRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts
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BangdbCassandraGalaxybaseHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022SiriDB
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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