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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. QuestDB vs. Tkrzw

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitebangdb.comhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquestdb.iodbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014QuestDB Technology IncMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20122012201020142020
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.1.3, April 20220.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaErlangJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesnono
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 timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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 modenoyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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BangdbHiveIBM CloudantQuestDBTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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