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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. OpenSearch

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector 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	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

bangdb.com

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

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

2021

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Using read-only observers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication

none

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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