DBMS > Bangdb vs. mSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. Stardog vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. mSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. Stardog vs. WakandaDB

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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

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
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	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.stardog.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.stardog.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Hughes Technologies

SAP

Stardog-Union

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

1994

2010

2012

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.4, October 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

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

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via event handlers

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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