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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. GridDB vs. MySQL

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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.

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.69
Rank	#101	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

cloud.google.com/spanner

griddb.net

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

docs.griddb.net

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

Toshiba Corporation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

1995

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.1, August 2022

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

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.

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID at container level

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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