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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. CouchDB vs. GBase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

couchdb.apache.org

www.gbase.cn

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

DGraph Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Percona

Initial release

2017

2005

2004

2015

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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