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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

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

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

quasardb

SAP

Initial release

2012

1994

2009

2010

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.4, October 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

only for the SQL API

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

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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