BangDB has very rich feature set and we are working hard to keep improving the existing ones and adding new ones to simplify the life of developers and enable them to deal with more challenging problems. Here is a high-level feature list for BangDB.

Multi Flavoured

  • Embedded - within the process or device

    • BangDB embedded runs within and as part of the user's process. This allows users to build local apps. For IOT use cases, the BangDB embedded can run within devices (micro-processors) and deal with some state based complex yet local use cases.

  • Client Server - over the network

    • Client connects to the server over the network. This is a shared state for the server and very good for majority of the use cases. This also allows users to store, analyse data and improve the app efficiency and performance

  • P2P based - fully distributed

    • This is very good for linear scaling and dealing with huge of amount of data. This is a masterless model therefore truly runs in a scalable distributed model. The db also tolerates high level of network churning in this case

  • Ampere - App building platform

    • Ampere allows BangDB to run behind portal and a dashboard. Users can not only visualise using the dashboard but also build their use cases or apps using simple intuitive dashboard.

Multi model

BangDB is designed to handle more than one data type. It deals with following kinds of data effectively.

  • Key value (value generally opaque)
  • Document - json based
  • Time series - for streaming real time data
  • Large files or binary data

More over, all of these different kinds of data could reside in same database and further could be joined or leveraged in different manner depending upon the use case.

Native streaming

BangDB has streaming capabilities natively implemented which allows users to simply ingest data and start dealing with time series data in real time manner. Streaming constructs like sliding window, aggregations, statistics, anomalies, finding patterns, CEP (complex event processing), notifications, prediction etc. all of these are supported in a very simple way.

User just has to write simple json and all of these could start working immediately with no extra coding for the same. It also supports running statistics such as aggr, groupby, avg, std-dev, topk, min, max, count, unique count, skew, ex-kurtosis etc. Explore more on this in the stream section

Native AI

BangDB has AI (ML, IE and DL) capabilities natively integrated. This allows users to deal with model building, testing, training and deploying for prediction using simple APIs. Further, since AI is within the db, therefore many activities on the AI side could be simply automated, which runs the BangDB for continuous intelligence.

BangDB abstracts all the infrastructure level complexities and allows user to deal with the use cases. For ex; infrastructure, large files storage and retrieval, Memory management, Model versioning, deployment etc. all are taken care by the db.

Graph and Cypher

One of the best feature of BangDB is that it supports Graph which means the data (triples) could be stored and queried as required. The Graph is treated as table where user can store data which is basically set of subject-relation-object triples. Then these data could be queried using Cypher query language.

The Graph can also be applied on streaming data with simple schema definition, which will allow db to keep adding triples to the Graph table and also query them for any pattern identifications.

Further, user can deal with ontologies as well which is created by the IE (Information Extraction) component of the BangDB. User can train KB (knowledge base), NER (Name Entity) model, Relation models and then for any given text, ontology can be created/predicted.

Cloud Native

  • BangDB Ampere runs on almost all favourite clouds and it could be deployed within few minutes of sign up.
  • BangDB also could be deployed on cloud or on-prem data centers or within the device, as required

Multi table types

To store different data in efficient manner, user may use different kinds of table supported by the db

Normal table

This is suitable for key-value data.

Wide table

This is suitable for document data. It allows users to create different indexes and also complex queries.

Primitive table

For many cases, we just need to deal with primitive types. Primitive tables are designed for maximum efficiency and performance for such data.

Large table

This is designed to keep very large files and provides S3 kind of APIs to deal with it. User can upload and download very large files or object. The ML component also uses it for automating training, testing and deployment

Key arrangement

BangDB has primary key concept and every data, irrespective of data type, it can be stored using the primary keys.

Primary keys can be stored in two different ways:

  • Sorted - using B+link*tree
  • Hashed - ExtHash*

Indexes

One of the best feature of BangDB is that it supports many kinds of indexes as these are necessary for efficient query and retrieval of the data.

Secondary Indexes

Here, again there are several different kinds of secondary indexes that could be created

  • Normal Indexes - on a given field of json etc
  • Nested Indexes - This could be nested within the document
  • Composite Indexes - Created by combining different fields
  • Geospatial Indexes - Suitable for coordinate based tuples
  • Reversed Indexes - For free text search

Queries

BangDB allows simple, complex, advanced queries to be run using simple express-able json language. Leveraging the different kinds of indexes, it is rather efficient to run some of the queries which could be complex for many other systems in the market.

For example: queries could be run on streaming data, different streams could be joined or filtered or processed for state based queries as well, in order to find interesting patterns

CEP

Complex event processing is an inbuilt feature in BangDB, which allows users or developers to find patterns within data in absolute manner. This is very powerful and happens in realtime with very less overhead and latency. Most of the CEP in the market are memory bloating ones, BangDB implements file system backed CEP yet on streaming continuous data.

Transaction

BangDB implements OCC (Optimistic concurrency control) transaction and users can leverage this for different purposes. However, every single operation is by default atomic in nature.

Write Ahead Logging (WAL)

BangDB implements write ahead logging with novel structure and algorithm which is based on Aries, and yet recovers data in a very high speed manner. WAL on one hand allows us to achieve transaction in efficient manner and on the other hand it allows db to recover from crash(system, process, db, machine etc.) in automated and high speed manner.

In-memory & persistent

BangDB can be made to run like in-mem db as well. This is purely from use case point of view. Default way for BangDB is to run in persistent mode. BangDB implements its own buffer pool/page cache and with predictive pre-fetching it manages data well beyond the working memory set.

Further BangDB implements a IO layer within the db to leverage SSDs in much better manner for large amount data to keep the performance high.

High Performance

BangDB achieves high performance in all different models and flavours. It's one of the highest performing databases in the market. In fact it is 2-3X when compared to mongodb, 50-70% higher as compared to redis (even thought it's primarily a in-mem key/val db) etc.