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DBMS > Bangdb vs. GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitebangdb.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.heavy.aicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGridGain Systems, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2012200720162010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021GridGain 8.5.15.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++Java, C++, .NetC++ and CUDAErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes (replicated cache)Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
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 modeyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Security Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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