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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Faircom DB vs. mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

FairCom Corporation

Hughes Technologies

Amazon Web Services

SAP

Initial release

2012

1979

1994

2021

2010

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V12, November 2020

4.4, October 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

none

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

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, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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 with additional protections for files

yes

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