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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Access vs. Tarantool

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMMicrosoftVK
Initial release20122004201719922008
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.01902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C, Java, PythonC and C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolStandard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
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 (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesActive-active shard replicationnoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes, write ahead logging
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 modeyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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