DBMS > Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

clickhouse.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.heavy.ai

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

DGraph Labs

Clickhouse Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2016

2008

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.10, January 2022

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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