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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Cassandra vs. Firebolt vs. InfluxDB vs. Milvus

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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

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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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	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

cassandra.apache.org

www.firebolt.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

milvus.io

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.firebolt.io

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

DGraph Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Initial release

2017

2008

2020

2013

2019

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

Vector, Numeric and String

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache licenseÂ Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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