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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Datomic vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.datomic.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.datomic.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Cognitect

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

2015

2009

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.0.7075, December 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, Clojure

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

on the application server

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

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

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

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

yes

optional

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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