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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV vs. Valentina Server vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Object-relational database and reports server

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational 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	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.valentina-db.net

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

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

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Paradigma Software

Yandex

Initial release

2012

1989

2009

1999

2019

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

Active-passive shard 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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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