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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

milvus.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Hypertable Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2009

2019

2010

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

Vector, Numeric and String

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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