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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

bangdb.com

www.gridgain.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Spotify

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2007

2014

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

using Azure authentication

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