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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Informix vs. NuoDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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

Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

doc.nuodb.com

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

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

1984

2013

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

14.10.FC5, November 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C, C++ and Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Erlang

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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