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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. EsgynDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Esgyn

Boiler Bay Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2015

2002

2014

2018

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++, Java

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

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

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes

Journaling Streams

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

in-memory journaling

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Role-based access control

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