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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 vs. LeanXcale

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

LeanXcale

Initial release

2012

2010

1983

host version

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

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

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Optimistic locking

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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