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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Citus vs. LokiJS vs. OrientDB vs. Splunk

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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 PostgreSQLIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score3.02
Rank#88  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitebangdb.comwww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSorientdb.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.citusdata.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSplunk Inc.
Initial release20122010201420102003
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20218.1, December 20183.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++CJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoyesyes
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 functionalitynonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language, no joinsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.View functions in JavaScriptJava, Javascriptyes
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnoneShardingSharding
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 extensionsnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
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 modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights for users and roles

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