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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. CrateDB vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. XTDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Distributed Database based on LuceneEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Microsofts flagship relational DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercratedb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercratedb.com/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDGraph LabsCrateSoftmotionsMicrosoftJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20172013201219892019
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCC++Clojure
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportserver-lessLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)noTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
BadgerCrateDBEJDBMicrosoft SQL ServerXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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