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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Ehcache vs. Prometheus vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.ehcache.org/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2009

2015

2014

2016

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

by Federation

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

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

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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