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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. IBM Db2 vs. Infobright vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

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

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Multivalue 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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Trend Chart

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

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

IBM

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2012

1983

host version

2005

1991

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

12.1, October 2016

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free version is available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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