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DBMS > Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CouchDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CouchDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  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 global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Widely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvcouchdb.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperDGraph LabsCloudflareApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20172016201820051994
Current release3.3.3, December 202318.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoPythonErlangC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonononono
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.nonononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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