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Name

Description

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

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bangdb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

couchdb.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

Developer

DGraph Labs

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Initial release

2017

2012

2013

2005

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.3.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a single document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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