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DBMS > Badger vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 PostgreSQLHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.citusdata.comwww.hawkular.orgquasar.aiterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.citusdata.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDGraph LabsCommunity supported by Red HatquasardbDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20172010201420092018
Current release8.1, December 20183.14.1, January 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTHTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access control

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