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

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 valuesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitebangdb.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release2012201120012011
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20211.23, February 20213.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnonoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)nonenonenone
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 dataACIDnonono
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 writesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
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 mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)nonono

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