DBMS > Badger vs. BigObject vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigObject vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bigobject.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

BigObject, Inc.

InterSystems

Amazon Web Services

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2015

2018

2021

2014

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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