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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Cassandra vs. IRONdb vs. searchxml vs. Teradata

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

cassandra.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Circonus LLC.

informationpartners gmbh

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2008

2017

2015

1984

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.1.3, July 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

1.0

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

on the application server

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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