DBMS > Badger vs. ClickHouse vs. EJDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. ClickHouse vs. EJDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

clickhouse.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

DGraph Labs

Clickhouse Inc.

Softmotions

IBM

Oracle

Initial release

2017

2016

2012

2017

2007

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.0

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

server-less

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

Active-active shard replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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