DBMS > Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebolt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebolt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SQLite

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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

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

www.firebolt.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.firebolt.io

docs.heavy.ai

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2016

2020

2016

2000

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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