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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. TimesTen

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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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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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	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

postgis.net

rockset.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

postgis.net/documentation

docs.rockset.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rockset

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2005

2019

1998

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

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

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

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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 means of logfiles and checkpoints

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)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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