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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GreptimeDB vs. Pinecone vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

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

A managed, cloud-native vector database

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

greptime.com

www.pinecone.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.greptime.com

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Greptime Inc.

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2022

2019

1998

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

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

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

PL/SQL

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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)

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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