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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. CouchDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. QuestDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercouchdb.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasequestdb.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerIBMMicrosoftQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20172005201720102014
Current release3.3.3, December 20232.0V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoErlangC and C++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Shardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BadgerCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"IBM Db2 Event StoreMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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