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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

DGraph Labs

Facebook, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2017

2013

2016

1999

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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