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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Cassandra vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Cassandra vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  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 accessCloud-based data warehousing serviceHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitebangdb.comcassandra.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Percona
Initial release20122008201420052015
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20214.1.3, July 20233.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQL, SQL PLnoJavaScript
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesnono
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"ShardingnoneSharding
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 possibleyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACIDno
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 infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users and roles
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