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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. CockroachDB vs. InterSystems IRIS

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Name

Description

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

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

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

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

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

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

Developer

DGraph Labs

Cockroach Labs

InterSystems

Initial release

2017

2015

2018

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Role-based access control

yes

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