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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak TS

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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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

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

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

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

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2010

2013

2007

2015

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V12

14.1, August 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

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

.Net
C++
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java, SQL

Erlang

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Live Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

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

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

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
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

optionally

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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