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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	168.09
Rank	#6	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.01
Rank	#179	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.snowflake.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2014

2022

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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