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DBMS > Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. GeoSpock

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. GeoSpock

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgeospock.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperDGraph LabsFoundationDBGeoSpock
Initial release201720162013
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageGoPythonC++Java, Javascript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonono infosome layers support typingyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonotemporal, categorical
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonosupported in specific SQL layer onlyANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per table

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