DBMS > Badger vs. Blueflood vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Blueflood vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

blueflood.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.objectbox.io

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

DGraph Labs

Rackspace

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2013

2014

2017

2016

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary native API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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