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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. ClickHouse vs. Heroic vs. Informix

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Trend Chart

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

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

clickhouse.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/informix

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

clickhouse.com/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Clickhouse Inc.

Spotify

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

1984

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

14.10.FC5, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Java

C, C++ and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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 and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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