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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Datomic vs. Elasticsearch vs. OrientDB vs. Quasardb

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  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 distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Distributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#325  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score134.78
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score3.27
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#15  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.datomic.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchorientdb.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.datomic.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperDGraph LabsCognitectElasticOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPquasardb
Initial release20172012201020102009
Current release1.0.6735, June 20238.6, January 20233.2.29, March 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial 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, ClojureJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsyesJava, Javascriptno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectorno infocould be achieved with distributed querieswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes 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 developmentMemcached and Redis integrationyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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