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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational 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	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

IBM

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2016

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL

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

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Active-active shard replication

none

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

yes

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