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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Bangdb vs. GeoMesa vs. NSDb

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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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	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bangdb.com

www.geomesa.org

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

DGraph Labs

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

CCRi and others

Initial release

2017

2012

2014

2017

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Scala

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

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

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

depending on storage layer

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

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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