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DBMS > Bangdb vs. LevelDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. LevelDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebangdb.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbrocksdb.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleFacebook, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2012201120132001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20211.23, February 20219.4.0, June 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnonono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneyesnone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
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 modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)nonono

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