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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Datomic vs. Graphite vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.datomic.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.datomic.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Cognitect

Chris Davis

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2006

2016

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.0.6735, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, Clojure

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java 7 VM

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

Numeric data only

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

By using transaction functions

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

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Source-replica replication

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles

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