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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Derby vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

db.apache.org/derby

google.github.io/lovefield

quasar.ai

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Google

quasardb

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

1997

2014

2009

2010

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

JavaScript

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Using read-only observers

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

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

using MemoryDB

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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