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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebangdb.comwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.sequoiadb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.datastax.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBDataStaxIBMSequoiadb Ltd.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122011201720132001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20216.8, April 20202.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJavaScriptno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
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 modeyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno
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Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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