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DBMS > Bangdb vs. GridDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GridDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA multi-model DBMS and application serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebangdb.comgriddb.netwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.griddb.netdocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBToshiba CorporationInterSystemsVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2012201319972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2011
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.1, August 20222018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20187.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++CC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at container levelACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
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 modeyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication
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BangdbGridDBInterSystems CachéPostgres-XLVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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