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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Coherence

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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

Widely used RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

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	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.heavy.ai

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

1980

2007

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

23c, September 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Using read-only observers

yes

Live Events

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, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

configurable

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

optionally

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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