DBMS > Bangdb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Percona

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

1994

2015

2009

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles

yes, using Riak Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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