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DBMS > Badger vs. BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. SwayDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.An embedded key-value store for Go.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
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Score0.14
Rank#328  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.dragonflydb.io/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSimer Plaha
Initial release2017201320232018
Current release1.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoGoC++Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freescheme-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol
Supported programming languagesGoGoC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLuano
Triggersnonopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoPassword-based authenticationno

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