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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. PostgreSQL

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesWidely used open source RDBMSApplication development environment with integrated database management systemWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1029.49
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score644.36
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.mysql.comwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedev.mysql.com/­docdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBIBMOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunProgress Software CorporationPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release20122017199519841989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.09.0.0, July 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 202016.4, August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++C and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoproprietary syntaxyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabrichorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Active-active shard replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlNo - written data is immutableyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
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 modeyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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