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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Ingres vs. MaxDB vs. QuestDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphWell established RDBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmaxdb.sap.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBActian CorporationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997QuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19842014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.2, May 20227.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++CC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
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 availablenono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesno
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 simultaneouslynonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Ingres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
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 modenonoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BangdbIngresMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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