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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. H2GIS vs. SQream DB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.h2gis.org

sqream.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.sqream.com

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

CNRS

SQream Technologies

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2009

2005

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2022.1.6, December 2022

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions in Python

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

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

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

based on H2

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

optional

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)

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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