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Name

Description

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#334	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

janusgraph.org

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Google

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

0.6.3, February 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Using read-only observers

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

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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