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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PostGIS vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

postgis.net

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

postgis.net/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

InterSystems

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2018

2005

2012

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2023.3, June 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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