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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. CouchDB vs. NCache vs. STSdb

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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 native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

couchdb.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Alachisoft

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

2016

2005

2011

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Typical application scenarios

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