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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

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Name

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

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#334	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

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

quasar.ai

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Circonus LLC.

quasardb

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2017

2009

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

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

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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