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DBMS > Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Fauna vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Fauna vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  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 assetsThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comwww.enterprisedb.comfauna.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.fauna.comdocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperDGraph LabsEnterpriseDBFauna, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release20172016200520142016
Current release14, December 20215.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoPythonCScalaC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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 controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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