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DBMS > Bangdb vs. gStore vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. gStore vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comen.gstore.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release20122016201420101999
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20211.2, November 2023V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++C++JavaErlangC and Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnononoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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