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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PouchDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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 assetsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityWidely used in-process key-value storeJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlpouchdb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperDGraph LabsCirconus LLC.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20172016201719942012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 201818.1.40, May 20207.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnono
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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuanoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica 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 consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 controlnoyesnonono

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