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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.gbase.cn

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

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

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.immudb.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Codenotary

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2004

2020

1994

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2.3, April 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

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)

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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