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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

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

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	423.96
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.mongodb.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

MongoDB, Inc

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2009

2010

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V12

6.0.7, June 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

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

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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