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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Badger vs. Faircom DB vs. Lovefield

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Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DGraph Labs

FairCom Corporation

Google

Initial release

2012

2017

1979

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

V12, November 2020

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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