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

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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 persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­boltdb/­boltrocksdb.orgwww.sqlite.orgvitess.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsFacebook, Inc.Dwayne Richard HippThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20172013201320002013
Current release8.11.4, April 20243.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGoC++CGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-lessDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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 indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoGoC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
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
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesnoneMulti-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 integritynononoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyesACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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