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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. H2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NCache vs. RRDtool

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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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.h2database.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2012

2005

1989

2005

1999

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

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

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

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

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Notifications

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

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, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, with selectable consistency level

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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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