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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Datomic vs. Ehcache vs. Ingres vs. Quasardb

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsWell established RDBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.datomic.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresquasar.ai
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.datomic.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperDGraph LabsCognitectTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGActian Corporationquasardb
Initial release2017201220091974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2009
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.10.0, March 202211.2, May 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureJavaCC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCache.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyesno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoby using Terracotta ServerIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoby using LevelDB
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 developmentyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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