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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Graph Engine vs. mSQL vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.graphengine.io

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2010

1994

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.4, October 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

.NET and C

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

.NET

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

horizontal partitioning

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of 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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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)

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