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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Vertica

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphWell established RDBMSA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBActian CorporationInterSystemsOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20182005
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.2, May 20222023.3, June 202312.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Ingres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
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 modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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BangdbIngresInterSystems IRISVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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