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

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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 accessA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime 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
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comcassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
pouchdb.comsiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.heavy.aipouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookHEAVY.AI, Inc.Apache Software FoundationCesbit
Initial release20122008201620122017
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20214.1.3, July 20235.10, January 20227.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesnoyes 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 solutionnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnoyesno
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"Sharding infoRound robinSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
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 replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
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 objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple rights management via user accounts
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BangdbCassandraHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022PouchDBSiriDB
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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