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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Cassandra vs. JaguarDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

cassandra.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2008

2015

1984

2006

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.1.3, July 2023

3.3 July 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

HP Open VMS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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"

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

Multi-source replication

none

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

Eventual Consistency

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

yes, on a single node

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users can be defined per object

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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