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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. CouchDB vs. Pinecone vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A managed, cloud-native vector database

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#87	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Pinecone Systems, Inc

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2005

2019

2017

2016

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.3.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

String, Number, Boolean

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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 views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

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

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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