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DBMS > Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PouchDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 assetsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comgeospock.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
pouchdb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aipouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperDGraph LabsGeoSpockHEAVY.AI, Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2017201620162012
Current release2.0, September 20195.10, January 20227.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJava, JavascriptC++ and CUDAJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesno
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 indexesnotemporal, categoricalnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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