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DBMS > Badger vs. Citus vs. GigaSpaces vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Citus vs. GigaSpaces vs. SpaceTime

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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 PostgreSQLHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.citusdata.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.citusdata.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.html
DeveloperDGraph LabsGigaspaces TechnologiesMireo
Initial release2017201020002020
Current release8.1, December 201815.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoCJava, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 functionalityno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-99 for query and DML statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesno
Triggersnoyesyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlyes

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