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DBMS > Badger vs. BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. Vitess

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.An embedded key-value store for Go.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldrocksdb.orgvitess.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikivitess.io/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsGoogleFacebook, Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20172013201420132013
Current release2.1.12, February 20178.11.4, April 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaScriptC++Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes
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 indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoGoJavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
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 infoStored proceduresnonononoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDyesACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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