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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Hive vs. Spark SQL vs. SwayDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Hive vs. Spark SQL vs. SwayDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 HadoopSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational 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
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comhive.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlswaydb.simer.auwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookApache Software FoundationSimer PlahaTimescale
Initial release20122012201420182017
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.1.3, April 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScalaScalaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factornonenoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
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 modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and rolesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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