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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Cassandra vs. Databend vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.databend.com

kairosdb.github.io

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Databend Labs

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2017

2008

2021

2013

2011

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

1.0.59, April 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

simple password-based access control

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