DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Badger vs. Fauna vs. LevelDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Badger vs. Fauna vs. LevelDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

fauna.com

github.com/google/leveldb

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

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

docs.fauna.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

DGraph Labs

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2017

2014

2011

2013

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.23, February 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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