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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA 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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score15.55
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comclickhouse.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestclickhouse.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperDGraph LabsClickhouse Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20172016201620012019
Current releasev24.4.1.2088-stable, May 20243.5.1, February 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonC++C++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnononoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingkey based and customSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess 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.noyes
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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