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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational 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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Teradata

Initial release

2012

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Domain Events

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

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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)

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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