DBMS > Badger vs. Citus vs. EXASOL vs. Newts vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Citus vs. EXASOL vs. Newts vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An 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 PostgreSQL

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.citusdata.com

www.exasol.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.citusdata.com

www.exasol.com/resources

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Exasol

OpenNMS Group

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2010

2000

2014

2000

Current release

8.1, December 2018

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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