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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

github.com/google/leveldb

objectbox.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Google

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2011

2017

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

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

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

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

with automatic compression on writes

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

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

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