DBMS > Bangdb vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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.

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

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

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

CCRi and others

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2014

2012

2017

1992

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

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

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

depending on storage layer

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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13 June 2023

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