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DBMS > Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  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 assetsDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#325  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score6.31
Rank#57  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datastax.comdocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperDGraph LabsDataStaxHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM
Initial release20172016201120162017
Current release6.8, April 20205.10, January 20222.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaC++ and CUDAC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BadgerBigchainDBDatastax EnterpriseHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022IBM Db2 Event Store
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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