DBMS > Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. GreptimeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

A 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.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	2.89
Rank	#103	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

bangdb.com

cloud.google.com/spanner

greptime.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

docs.greptime.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

Greptime Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2017

2022

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

JavaScript

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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