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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. NuoDB vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasequestdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdoc.nuodb.comquestdb.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.QuestDB Technology IncSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122013201420112018
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20214.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesSQL with time-series extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLnonoyes
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneJournaling Streams
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 modeyes infoTemporary tableyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersnoRole-based access control
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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