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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. RDF4J

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitebangdb.comcloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iordf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleChris DavisSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2012201720062004
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
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 modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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