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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Fauna vs. GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFauna 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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational 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
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitebangdb.comfauna.comgriddb.netwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.fauna.comdocs.griddb.netcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBFauna, Inc.Toshiba CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2012201420132010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++ScalaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampno
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, geospatialyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at container levelno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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 modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Identity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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BangdbFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBGridDBIBM Cloudant
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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