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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. CouchDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comcouchdb.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerElasticMicrosoft
Initial release2012200520102010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.3.3, December 20238.6, January 2023V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++ErlangJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infovia viewsyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesTransact SQL
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
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 modenoMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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