DBMS > Badger vs. Couchbase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Couchbase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HugeGraph vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.couchbase.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchbase.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

DGraph Labs

Couchbase, Inc.

Google

Baidu

Rockset

Initial release

2017

2011

2017

2018

2019

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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