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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. STSdb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBMicrosoftSTS Soft SCTimescale
Initial release20122016200520112017
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.4.2, February 20244.0.8, September 20152.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++CC#C
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedWindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesyesnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C#
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLuser defined functionsnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
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 modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)yesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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