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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Heroic vs. Kingbase vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

bangdb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Spotify

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

2014

1999

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V8.0, August 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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