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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Citus vs. Graphite vs. Quasardb

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.citusdata.comgraphite.readthedocs.iodoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBChris Davisquasardb
Initial release2012201020062009
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20218.1, December 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++CPythonC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nono
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 algorithmShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
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 modenoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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