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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Geode vs. H2 vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

geode.apache.org

www.h2database.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

geode.apache.org/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Thomas Mueller

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2002

2005

2016

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.1, February 2017

2.2.220, July 2023

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Cache Event Listeners

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

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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