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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. mSQL

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  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 graphA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityHigh performance Time Series DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kx.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticshughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedcode.kx.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBCirconus LLC.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoftHughes Technologies
Initial release201220172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320161994
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021V0.10.20, January 20183.6, May 20184.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++qC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (q)yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsTransact SQLno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
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 modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)norights management via user accountsyesno
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BangdbIRONdbKdbMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehousemSQL infoMini SQL
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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