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DBMS > Badger vs. CouchDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. CouchDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn 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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercouchdb.apache.orggeospock.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDGraph LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGeoSpockMicrosoft
Initial release2017200520162005
Current release3.3.3, December 20232.0, September 20193.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageGoErlangJava, JavascriptC++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewstemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoTransact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Automatic shardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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