DBMS > Bangdb vs. EsgynDB vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. EsgynDB vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Weaviate

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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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

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	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Esgyn

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2015

1991

2016

2019

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.7

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

optional

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

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 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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Key customers

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