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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Google BigQuery vs. Neo4j vs. OrientDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.15
Rank	#334	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	44.47
Rank	#23	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#15	Key-value stores

Score	1.81
Rank	#143	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

neo4j.com

orientdb.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

neo4j.com/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

Neo4j, Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2010

2007

2010

2003

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.18.1, March 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, Scala

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Java, Javascript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via event handler

Hooks

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

none

yes using Neo4j Fabric

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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