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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

bangdb.com

www.geomesa.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

kairosdb.github.io

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

CCRi and others

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2019

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.0.0, May 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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