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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch vs. Kinetica vs. OrientDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websitebangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.kinetica.comorientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBElasticKineticaOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2012201020122010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20218.6, January 20237.1, August 20213.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsJava, Javascript
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
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 modeMemcached and Redis integrationyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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