DBMS > Bangdb vs. JSqlDb vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. JSqlDb vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

realm.io

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Konrad von Backstrom

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2018

2014

2013

1992

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

0.8, December 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Change Listeners

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

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

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

using RocksDB

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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