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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Ignite vs. Realm vs. Riak TS vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

ignite.apache.org

realm.io

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

realm.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2015

2005

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++, Java, .Net

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Erlang

R packages

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Change Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes (replicated cache)

none

selectable replication factor

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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