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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. PostGIS vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

postgis.net

realm.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

postgis.net/documentation

realm.io/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2005

2014

2011

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Change Listeners

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

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 realm

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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