DBMS > Bangdb vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

bangdb.com

hazelcast.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.mysql.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Hazelcast

IBM

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2008

2017

1995

2020

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.3.6, November 2023

2.0

8.4.0, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Events

yes

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Replicated Map

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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)

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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