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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#341	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.30
Rank	#54	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#135	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	3.48
Rank	#100	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	4.48
Rank	#88	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

www.h2database.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-warehouse

pouchdb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bangdb.com/developer

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

pouchdb.com/guides

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Thomas Mueller

IBM

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2005

2014

2012

2013

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.1.210, January 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

7.9.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

PL/SQL, SQL PL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

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

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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