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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. MarkLogic vs. Sphinx

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.20
Rank#325  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score6.50
Rank#56  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#5  Search engines
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comwww.marklogic.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.marklogic.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsAsthon TateMarkLogic Corp.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20172016197920012001
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201911.0, December 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL92SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsno

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