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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. TinkerGraph vs. YugabyteDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
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
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/tinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release20122010201720092017
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021V0.10.20, January 20182.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++ErlangC and C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APITinkerPop 3JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Groovy
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in Luanoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoOptimistic lockingyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesoptionalyes infobased on RocksDB
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 modenonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per databasenonoyes
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BangdbIBM CloudantIRONdbTinkerGraphYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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