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

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Name

Description

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

A 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 ElasticSearch

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

bangdb.com

en.gstore.cn

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

2010

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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