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DBMS > Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Realm vs. Titan vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Realm vs. Titan vs. VoltDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comrealm.iogithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestrealm.io/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikidocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperDGraph LabsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Aurelius, owned by DataStaxVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20172016201420122010
Current release11.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Clojure
Java
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyesJava
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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