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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. MongoDB vs. NCache vs. Quasardb vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

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

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	410.24
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.mongodb.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

quasar.ai

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

MongoDB, Inc

Alachisoft

quasardb

Splice Machine

Initial release

2012

2009

2005

2009

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.0.5, January 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

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

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

schema-free

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

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Java

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Notifications

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

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.

yes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

by using LevelDB

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

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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