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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Cassandra vs. GBase vs. NuoDB

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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 analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.20
Rank	#325	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

cassandra.apache.org

www.gbase.cn

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

DGraph Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2008

2013

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

GBase 8a

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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