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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebangdb.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-websiridb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBCCRi and othersChris DavisCesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122014200620172001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.0.0, May 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ScalaPythonCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesNumeric data onlyyes infoNumeric datano
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, geospatialyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmdepending on storage layernoneShardingSharding 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)depending on storage layernoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglydepending on storage layernone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infolockingyesyes
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 modedepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenosimple rights management via user accountsno

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