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DBMS > Badger vs. CockroachDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. CockroachDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn 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.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.cockroachlabs.comopentsdb.netwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperDGraph LabsCockroach Labscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2017201520112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release24.1.0, May 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGoJavaC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infoMVCC
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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