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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Couchbase vs. KairosDB vs. Netezza

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Name

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.couchbase.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.couchbase.com

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Couchbase, Inc.

IBM

Initial release

2012

2011

2013

2000

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via the TAP protocol

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

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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