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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Cubrid vs. Ignite vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

bangdb.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

ignite.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

cubrid.org/manuals

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2012

2008

2015

2010

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

11.0, January 2021

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C, C++, Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

SQLScript, R

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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