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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

manticoresearch.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

manual.manticoresearch.com

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Circonus LLC.

Manticore Software

Initial release

2012

2017

2005

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

6.0, February 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

text, numeric, histograms

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

C
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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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