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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. PostgreSQL

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. PostgreSQL

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Widely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score645.54
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comdgraph.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdgraph.io/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBDgraph Labs, Inc.CCRi and othersPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release2012201620141989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.0.0, May 202416.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++GoScalaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnonoyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmyesdepending on storage layerpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Synchronous replication via Raftdepending on storage layerSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
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 modedepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)no infoPlanned for future releasesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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