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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.An embedded key-value store for Go.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.exasol.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.exasol.com/­resourcessphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsExasolSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20172013200020012011
Current release3.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoC++C#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesnonoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGoGoJava
Lua
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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