DBMS > Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. KeyDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. KeyDB

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Primary database model

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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	0.08
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	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.hawkular.org

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.keydb.dev

Developer

DGraph Labs

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2016

2010

2014

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Lua

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple password-based access control and ACL

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