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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Fauna vs. Google BigQuery vs. Ignite vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

fauna.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

ignite.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.fauna.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

2015

1994

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

Apache Ignite 2.6

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Scala

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication

yes (replicated cache)

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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)

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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