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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.kinetica.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.heavy.ai

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Kinetica

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.10, January 2022

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++ and CUDA

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

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

Round robin

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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