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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. MariaDB vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.datastax.com

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

DGraph Labs

DataStax

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

OpenPie

Initial release

2017

2011

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

Current release

6.8, April 2020

11.3.2, February 2024

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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MariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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MariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Market metrics

Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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MariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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