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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MongoDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

dgraph.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.mongodb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

dgraph.io/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Microsoft

MongoDB, Inc

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2016

2009

2020

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

6.0.7, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

C#
Java
PHP

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

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

yes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

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

optional, enabled by default

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

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Planned for future releases

yes

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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