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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. InfluxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. Rockset

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitebangdb.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.airockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBquasardbRockset
Initial release201220132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20092019
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.7.6, April 202410 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++GoCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infointeger and binarydynamic typing
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesyes infowith tagsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
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 modeyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)simple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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BangdbInfluxDBPostgres-XLQuasardbRockset
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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