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DBMS > Badger vs. Citus vs. Datomic vs. OrientDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Citus vs. Datomic vs. OrientDB vs. SQream DB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.citusdata.comwww.datomic.comorientdb.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.citusdata.comdocs.datomic.comwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperDGraph LabsCognitectOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSQream Technologies
Initial release20172010201220102017
Current release8.1, December 20181.0.6735, June 20233.2.29, March 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJava, ClojureJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language, no joinsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Clojure
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoTransaction FunctionsJava, Javascriptuser defined functions in Python
TriggersnoyesBy using transaction functionsHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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