DBMS > Bangdb vs. Infobright vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Infobright vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Google

Oracle

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2005

2014

2007

2000

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

14.1, August 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Using read-only observers

yes

Live Events

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

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

optionally

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

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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