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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigObject vs. Datomic vs. Kdb

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigobject.iowww.datomic.comkx.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.bigobject.iodocs.datomic.comcode.kx.com
DeveloperDGraph LabsBigObject, Inc.CognitectKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release2017201520122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, Clojureq
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functions
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononorights management via user accounts
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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