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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Dragonfly vs. IRONdb vs. MongoDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.mongodb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Circonus LLC.

MongoDB, Inc

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

2023

2017

2009

1984

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.0, March 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

6.0.7, June 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

BSL 1.1

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

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

scheme-free

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.

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP API

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes, in Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

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.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes, strict serializability by the server

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)

Password-based authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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