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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Couchbase vs. Hypertable vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Couchbase vs. Hypertable vs. PostGIS

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeWide column storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score16.59
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.couchbase.compostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.couchbase.compostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBCouchbase, Inc.Hypertable Inc.
Initial release2012201120092005
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20230.9.8.11, March 20163.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C, C++, Go and ErlangC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++nouser defined functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infovia the TAP protocolnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmAutomatic ShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
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 modeyes infoEphemeral bucketsno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.noyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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