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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. LMDB vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#14	Vector DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.snowflake.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.lmdb.tech/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Symas

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2011

2014

2023

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

0.9.32, January 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

yes

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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