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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrethinkdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSrethinkdb.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBSpotifyThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20122014201420091992
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.4.1, August 202017, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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 Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
JavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnoneSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
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 modenoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)noyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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