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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Derby vs. InfluxDB vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitebangdb.comdb.apache.org/­derbywww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewpostgis.netrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbpostgis.net/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20121997201320052009
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202110.17.1.0, November 20232.7.6, April 20243.4.2, February 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaGoCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnouser defined functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
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 modeyesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infousers and table-level permissions
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BangdbDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBInfluxDBPostGISRethinkDB
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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