DBMS > Badger vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. InfluxDB vs. Milvus vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. InfluxDB vs. Milvus vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

milvus.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DGraph Labs

Cloudflare

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2018

2013

2019

2013

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2.3.4, January 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

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