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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Interbase vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasesphinxsearch.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBEmbarcaderoSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2012198420012009
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021InterBase 2020, December 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++CC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Interbase Change Viewsnonenone
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.optional
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 modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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