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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB vs. Sphinx

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebangdb.comwww.gbase.cnopentsdb.netquestdb.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsQuestDB Technology IncSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122004201120142001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C, Java, PythonJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesno
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, geospatialyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnonono
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 partitioningSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
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 modenoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)yesnono
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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