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DBMS > Badger vs. BoltDB vs. CouchDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BoltDB vs. CouchDB vs. PostGIS

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.An embedded key-value store for Go.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcouchdb.apache.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDGraph LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer
Initial release2017201320052005
Current release3.3.3, December 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoGoErlangC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoGoC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0yes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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