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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. H2 vs. Informix vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBDocument storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
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Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score16.32
Rank#35  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score4.15
Rank#70  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#8  Search engines
Websitebangdb.comwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.progress.com/­marklogic
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
techfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBThomas MuellerIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.MarkLogic Corp.
Initial release20122005198420142001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.2.220, July 202314.10.FC5, November 202011.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC, C++ and JavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesyesnoyes infoSQL92
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsyesView functions in JavaScriptyes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
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 modeyesyesyesyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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