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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Databend vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. Kdb

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.30
Rank#287  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.datomic.comkx.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.databend.comdocs.datomic.comcode.kx.com
DeveloperDGraph LabsDatabend LabsCognitectHypertable Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20172021201220092000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release1.0.59, April 20231.0.6735, June 20230.9.8.11, March 20163.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoRustJava, ClojureC++q
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Clojure
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functions
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsnoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesnonorights management via user accounts
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BadgerDatabendDatomicHypertableKdb
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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