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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Cubrid vs. LevelDB vs. MariaDB vs. PostGIS

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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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

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

github.com/google/leveldb

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

cubrid.org/manuals

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2012

2008

2011

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2005

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

11.0, January 2021

1.23, February 2021

11.3.2, February 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C, C++, Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

user defined functions

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

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

with automatic compression on writes

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

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

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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